Baldassare Franceschini, called Il Volterrano

Hylas with a vase

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January 28, 03:31 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 90,000 USD

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Baldassare Franceschini, called Il Volterrano

Volterra 1611 - 1689 Florence

Hylas with a vase

oil on canvas, an oval

canvas: 41 by 34 in.; 104.1 by 86.4 cm.

framed: 65 by 53½ in.; 165.1 by 135.9 cm.

Commissioned by Cosimo di Antonio Citerni (d. 1653), Florence, c. 1650;
Thence by inheritance to his brother, Benedetto Citerni (1609 - after 1662), and by descent to his son Antonio Citerni (1651 - 1720), Florence;
With Marco Voena, Milan, 2001-2002;
From whom acquired.

F. Baldinucci, Notizie de' professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua, Florence, 1728, vol. 5, p. 161;¹

M. Fabbri in Pittura nella Firenze di Ferdinando II de Medici, ed. M. Gregori, exhibition catlaogue, Turin 2002, pp. 16-17, 37-38;

S. Bellesi, Catalogo dei pittori fiorentini del '600 e '700. Biografie e opere, Florence 2009, vol. I, p. 150, vol. II, p. 297, reproduced fig. 651;

A. Grassi, "Il Volterrano. Le ragioni di una forma tra alcune voci della Firenze seicentesca," Ph.D. diss., Università degli Studi di Firenze 2012, p. 110;

M.C. Fabbri in Volterrano: Baldassarre Franceschini (1611 - 1690), ed. M.C. Fabbri, A. Grassi, and R. Spinelli, Florence 2013, pp. 152 - 153, cat. no. 31, reproduced in color p. 153.