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Lot 5
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Andrea Boscoli Florence 1560 - 1607 (?)

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • Andrea Boscoli
  • an antique sacrifice
  • bears inscription in brown ink: da Pulidoro a la....and in pencil in a more modern hand: Andrea/Boscholi (recto); and in brown ink in another hand (verso): Andrea Boscholi
  • pen and brown ink and wash over traces of black chalk; all contours indented for transfer  

Provenance

?Comte de Caylus (L. 474, the mark formerly attributed to Crozat);
Thomas Banks (L.2423);
by descent to Baron de Triqueti (L.1304)

Catalogue Note

This is a copy after a fresco by Polidoro da Caravaggio on the façade of Palazzo Gaddi, Rome. Boscoli made many copies after Polidoro during his visit to Rome between 1582-85.