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GIOVANNI MARIA BUTTERI | PORTRAIT OF A BOY IN A BURGUNDY COAT AND WHITE RUFF, BUST-LENGTH
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GIOVANNI MARIA BUTTERI
Florence 1540 - circa 1606
PORTRAIT OF A BOY IN A BURGUNDY COAT AND WHITE RUFF, BUST-LENGTH
oil on copper
copper: 4⅞ by 4⅛ in.; 10.5 by 12.5 cm.
framed: 10 by 9¼ in.; 25.4 by 23.6 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.