Lot 288: MICHELE TOSINI, CALLED MICHELE DI RIDOLFO DEL GHIRLANDAIO FLORENCE 1503 - 1577

PORTRAIT OF A NOBLEMAN

measurements note
25 3/4 by 20 1/2 in.; 65.4 by 52.1 cm.

oil on panel

PROVENANCE

Anonymous sale, Paris, Palazzo Galliera, 1971, cat. no. 39, (as by Salviati).

LITERATURE

Luisa Mortari, Francesco Salviati, Rome 1992, p. 163, cat. no. 200, reproduced (under Doubtful or Erroneous Attributions).

NOTE

In a private communication, Pierluigi Carofano, gives the present portrait to Tosini based on comparison with other portraits by the artist. He compares our picture to a Portrait of a Hunter formerly in the Antinori collection, Florence.