Lot 26: FRANCESCO  MORANDINI,  CALLED  IL  POPPI

POPPI  1544  -  1597  FLORENCE
WATER  DEITIES
oil  on  panel
121.4  by  185.5  cm.;  47  3/4    by  73  in.

Paris, Wildenstein, L'École de Fontainbleau, December 1939, no. 2 (as attributed to Nicolò dell'Abate);
New York, Wildenstein, The School of Fontainbleau, 31 October - 30 November 1940 (as Niccolò dell'Abate and workshop);
London, Royal Academy, Landscape in French Art, 10 December - 5 March 1950, no. 13 (as Niccolò dell'Abate and assistants).

R. Huyghe, "L'École de Fontainbleau", in Beaux-Arts, 1 December 1939, p. 12, reproduced (as probably Nicolò dell'Abate);
A. Watt, "Notes from Paris", in Apollo , XXXI, no. 182, February 1940, p. 46 (as probably by Nicolò dell'Abate);
S. Béguin, L'École de Fontainbleau, Paris 1960, p. 140, footnote 49 (as probably Flemish School);
J. Bousquet, La Peinture Maniériste, Neuchâtel 1964, p. 182, reproduced (as School of Fontainbleau);
M. Valsecchi and R. Charmet, "Fontainbleau", in Le Arti, XXX, nos. 1-2, January - February 1973, p. 12, a detail reproduced fig. 2.

Galerie Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris;
From whom acquired by Wildenstein in March 1939;
Private collection.