From Taddeo to Tiepolo: The Dr. John O’Brien Collection of Old Master Drawings

From Taddeo to Tiepolo: The Dr. John O’Brien Collection of Old Master Drawings

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Domenico Cresti, called Passignano

Cosimo I de' Medici Elected Duke of Tuscany by the Florentine Senate

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January 27, 09:35 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Domenico Cresti, called Passignano

Passignano 1559 - 1638 Florence

Cosimo I de' Medici Elected Duke of Tuscany by the Florentine Senate


Pen and brown ink and wash over traces of red chalk;

bears old attribution in pen and brown ink, lower right: Ludo Cigoli

278 by 410 mm; 11 by 16 1/8 in

Sir Charles Greville (1763-1832), (L.549; on the backing sheet);
George Guy, 4th Earl of Warwick (1818-1893), Warwick (L.2600; recto);
sale, New York, Christie's, 10 January 1990, lot 30 (as Circle of Lodovico Cardi, called il Cigoli);
with Mia Weiner, Old Master Drawings, New York 1990, no. 16, reproduced (as Attributed to Passignano),
where acquired, 1990
M. Chappell, 'Passignano in Palazzo Vecchio,' Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 136 (2000), pp. 233-52, fig. 8, note 23