Edgar Degas – The Collector of Prints – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436122
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This arresting portrait of an unidentified young Florentine is dated by most scholars to the 1530s. During that decade Bronzino was often engaged in painting members of a close-knit circle of acquaintances with whom he shared literary interests, and this sitter—who so conspicuously holds open a book—may be from among that group
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This arresting portrait of an unidentified young Florentine is dated by most scholars to the 1530s. During that decade Bronzino was often engaged in painting members of a close-knit circle of acquaintances with whom he shared literary interests, and this sitter—who so conspicuously holds open a book—may be from among that group
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The Painting: Paul Cézanne often has been called a master of still-life painting. In The Met’s picture, we can see why. The white tablecloth and the apples rise and fall in variegated hillocks of a lush new territory, the world of Cézanne’s apples, where the sense of the solidity of the apples is closely allied to their spherical geometry
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Signature: [On recto, annotated in pen and light brown ink at lower left:] di Michel Angelo bona RotiInscription: On verso, annotated in pen and brown ink at upper right: 58 Annotated by early 16th century hand at lower center, following the same numbering system of the Michelangelo drawings in the Buonarroti family: nº
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Vicente Huidobro, Paris, acquired before 1920; Paul Guillaume, Paris, ca. 1925–(d.)1934; Sir Jacob Epstein, London, 1935–(d.)1959; Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, 1961, on loan to the MPA, New York, 1961–78
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New School for Social Research, New York (1931–82; unveiled January 1, 1931; sold in May 1982 to Maurice Segoura Gallery); [Maurice Segoura Gallery, New York, 1982–84; sold on February 1, 1984 to Equitable Life]; The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States (now AXA), New York (1984–2012; their gift to MMA)
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Inscription: Recto inscribed toward the center of the upper border in pen and medium brown ink by Leonardo, script reading from right to left:ilramarro . fedele allomo vede[n]do quello adorme[n] / tato
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