* Giovanni Battista Franco, called il Semolei Venice 1510 - 1561

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Description

Giovanni Battista Franco, called il Semolei
a design for a maiolica dish: a roman soldier approaching seated figures
bears numbering, lower right: 4
pen and brown ink

Catalogue Note

Franco was in Urbino from 1545-51, employed by Duke Guidobaldo II to supply designs for his majolica factory at Castel Durante. Another drawing by Franco with a classical subject, Mucius Scaevola, has been connected with a dish now in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig (see sale, New York, Christie's, 28 Janaury 1999, lot 34).