Lot 100: Matteo Rosselli , Florence 1578 - 1650 study of a captive figure in a long coat Red and black chalk; bears old attribution in black chalk: Gio. da S. Giovanni

Red and black chalk; bears old attribution in black chalk: Gio. da S. Giovanni

measurements note 420 by 208 mm

Miles Chappell, 'Florentine Baroque Art: Recent Studies and Some New Proposals', in Southeastern College Art Conference Review, Spring 1985, pp. 255-56, fig. 22

Miles Chappell (loc.cit.) recognised this as a study for a woman captive in Rosselli's fresco The Capture of Ippona, painted between 1621 and 1623 in one of the rooms of the Casino Mediceo, the residence of Cardinal Carlo de'Medici, near Piazza S. Marco, Florence. As was common studio practice, a garzone posed for the female figure. The fresco shows Turkish captives led before Ferdinando de'Medici after the Tuscan victory at Ippona in September 1607.