Lot 32: BALDASSARE FRANCESCHINI, CALLED IL VOLTERRANO

BALDASSARE FRANCESCHINI, CALLED IL VOLTERRANO VOLTERRA 1611 - 1689 FLORENCE RECTO : SELF-PORTRAIT; VERSO : A DRAPERY STUDY Red chalk, heightened with white ( recto and verso ), on greyish paper 411 by 278 mm

Sale, London, Sotheby's, 8 July 1998, lot 20, where bought by the present owner

A comparison may be made with a self-portrait by Volterrano now in the Uffizi, painted between 1665-75 for Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici. There is an obvious likeness with the present sitter, though the painting clearly shows the artist somewhat later in life, looking considerably more corpulent.υ1

Two self-portrait sketches by Volterrano (one in red chalk and the other in pen and brown ink) from the collection of Baldinucci are in the Louvre.υ2

1. Gli Uffizi, Catalogo Generale, Florence 1979, p. 1037, fig. A1011
2. R. Bacou and J. Bean, Disegni Fiorentini del Museo del Louvre, exhib. cat., Rome, Farnesina, 1959, nos. 61, 66, figs. 66-67