
Auction Closed
May 22, 08:55 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
GIOVANNI MARIA BUTTERI
(Florence 1540 - circa 1606)
PORTRAIT OF A BOY IN A BURGUNDY COAT AND WHITE RUFF, BUST-LENGTH
oil on copper
4⅞ by 4⅛ in.; 10.5 by 12.5 cm.
Butteri was a close friend and collaborator of Alessandro Allori in late-16th century Florence. Francesca Baldassari dates this small portrait to circa 1580, after Butteri had decorated the studiolo of Francesco I de' Medici in the Palazzo Vecchio, and established his own workshop.