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Alessandro Allori: Portrait of a Florentine noblewoman, bust-length   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Alessandro Allori  (1535–1607)  wikidata:Q333369
 
Alessandro Allori
Alternative names
Alessandro di Christofano di Lorenzo Allori; Il Bronzino (II); Alessandro del Bronzino; Alessandro Bronzino Allori
Description Italian painter, fresco painter, designer and writer
Date of birth/death 31 May 1535 Edit this at Wikidata 22 September 1607 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Florence Florence
Work period 1552 Edit this at Wikidata–1607 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Florence (1552-1554), Rome (1554-1559), Florence (1560-1607), Pisa (1581)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q333369
Title
Portrait of a Florentine noblewoman, bust-length
Description
English: Portrait of an unknown woman
label QS:Lit,"Ritratto di donna sconosciuta"
label QS:Lfr,"Portrait d'une femme inconnue"
label QS:Lpl,"Portret nieznanej kobiety"
label QS:Lnl,"Portret van een onbekende vrouw"
label QS:Lru,"Портрет неизвестной женщины"
label QS:Lde,"Porträt einer unbekannten Frau"
label QS:Lpt,"Retrato de uma mulher desconhecida"
label QS:Les,"Retrato de una mujer desconocida"
label QS:Lhu,"Ismeretlen nő portréja"
, formerly thought to be Eleanor of Toledo (1522-1562)
Catalogue Note

This refined portrait of a member of the Florentine patriciate was painted by Alessandro Allori and his workshop probably during the 1550s, when this style of coiffure and dress was in vogue. The elegant sitter wears a red velvet dress over a white shift ornamented with straps of gold filigree. The pearl necklace and complementary headdress served as tangible symbols of her wealth and status.
The painting is likely an adaptation of a three-quarter-length, seated portrait of the sitter, one version of which is in Paris (Musée du Louvre, inv. no. MNR 800) while another is untraced since World War II (previously Kyiv, Nationalmuseum, inv. no. 6057). The original, erroneously identified as depicting Eleanora di Toledo in the past, may have been conceived as a pendant to a portrait depicting the sitter's husband.
Among those artists working closely with Allori at that time was Giovanni Maria Butteri (Florence circa 1540-1606 or 1608), who may have participated in the execution of this refined portrait. Like Allori, Butteri trained under Agnolo Bronzino, and the two younger painters remained associates and collaborators throughout their careers. The hard edges of the sitter's features, as well as the geometric rendering of her visage, are hallmarks of Butteri's style.
We are grateful to Adriana Concin for her assistance cataloguing this lot."

Date 16th century
date QS:P571,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Medium oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 45.7 cm (17.9 in); width: 33 cm (12.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,45.7U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,33U174728
Object history

Provenance:

  • Arthur Fitzgerald (1847-1923), Lord Kinnaird of Inchture, Rossie Priory, Scotland, by 1890;
  • Thence by inheritance to his son, Kenneth Fitzgerald Kinnaird (1880-1972), Lord Kinnaird of Inchture, Rossie Priory, Scotland;
  • By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 27 March 1968, lot 100 (as A. Bronzino);
  • Where acquired by Betts;
  • Thereafter acquired by the late collector.
  • Property from the Estate of Benjamin D. Holt, Jr.
  • Auction: Sotheby's, 27 January 2023, New York, Master Paintings and Sculpture Part II, lot 414 [1]
References http://catalogo.fondazionezeri.unibo.it/entry/work/38346/Agnolo%20di%20Cosimo%2C%20
Source/Photographer https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Portrait-of-a-Florentine-noblewoman--bus/97406019F11A5FEC7EEF29093907A0AA [2]

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