Lot 28: *GIOVANNA GARZONI (1600-1670)

gouache on vellum Garzoni is listed in a Medici inventory as a native of Lucca, however, other sources list her birth city as Ascoli Piceno. At the age of twenty five she was already in Venice and worked in various other cities throughout her lifetime such as Naples and Turin. However, she spent her final years in Rome where she willed all her goods to the Accademia di San Luca. The Accademia holds several of her still lifes as well as a portrait of her.

Sale: Sotheby's, Monaco, June 18, 1992, lot 1, there purchased by the present collector for FF 555,000 ($105,383)