LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on slate

Measurements:

18.70 in. (47.50 cm.) (height) by 14.17 in. (36.00 cm.) (width)

Literature:

A. Ballarin, 'Un nuovo ritratto su lavagna di Sebastiano del Piombo', in. Nuovi Studi, Rivista di arte antica e moderna , vol. 21, 2015, pp. 71-80, reproduced in colour pls XV, XVI, and XVII and figs 108-09, 114, 121, 124, 130 and 132-33 (as depicting Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici);. A. Cerasuolo, 'Osservazioni sulla tecnica di Sebastiano del Piombo', in Nuovi Studi , 21, 2015, pp. 81-86; . P. Baker-Bates, ''Uno nuovo modo di colorire in pietra': Technical Experimentation in the Art of Sebastiano del Piombo', in P. Baker-Bates and E. M. Calvillo (eds), Almost Eternal: Painting on Stone and Material Innovation in Early Modern Europe , Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe , vol. 10, April 2018, pp. 53, and 64, reproduced p. 54, fig. 1.4 (incorrectly listed by the publisher as attributed to Sebastiano); . P. Baker-Bates, 'Technical Experimentation in the Art of Sebastiano del Piombo: Further Thoughts', forthcoming (as by Sebastiano del Piombo

Provenance:

Count Giuseppe Canera di Salasco, Villa Franceschini Pasini Canera di Salasco di Arcugnano, Vicenza, Italy; . His deceased sale, Milan, Finarte, 25 February 1986, lot 103 (as Venetian School, 17 th century, Portrait of a Warrior); . Where acquired by the present owner