Master Paintings Part II
Master Paintings Part II
Follower of Agnolo di Cosimo, called Bronzino
Portrait of Eleanora of Toledo, bust length
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January 28, 03:08 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Follower of Agnolo di Cosimo, called Bronzino
Portrait of Eleanora of Toledo, bust length
bears inscription upper left: LUCRECE BORGIA
oil on panel, unframed
panel: 22⅞ by 18⅜ in.; 58.1 by 46.7 cm.
This bust-length portrait of Eleonora di Toledo—not Lucrezia Borgia as incorrectly inscribed along the upper edge—follows a detail from Bronzino's three-quarter length portrait of Eleonora seated with her son Giovanni today in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.1
1. Inv. 1890 no. 748, oil on panel, 115 by 96 cm. https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/portrait-of-eleonora-di-toledo-with-her-son-giovanni/QAEccCsLDtbB4A?hl=en