Scipione Pulzone

Portrait of a Young Noblewoman, Possibly Identified as Lavinia della Rovere or Vittoria Accorambini

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February 1, 04:16 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property of a Private European Collector

Scipione Pulzone

Gaeta 1544 - 1598 Rome

Portrait of a Young Noblewoman, Possibly Identified as Lavinia della Rovere or Vittoria Accorambini

oil on canvas

canvas: 21 ¼ by 16 ¼ in.; 54.0 by 41.3 cm.

framed: 28 ½ by 23 ½ in.; 72.4 by 59.5 cm.

Boyd collection, Kyllachy House, Inverness-shire, Scotland;

From whom acquired, along with the contents of Kyllachy House, by a private collection, Inverness-shire, Scotland, 1975;

By whom anonymously sold, London, Bonhams, 9 July 2008, lot 1 (as Studio of Scipione Pulzone);

Where acquired by the present collector.

A. Ribeiro, Facing Beauty: Painted Women & Cosmetic Art, New Haven and London 2011, pp. 75-80, reproduced fig. 53 and in detail fig. 54 (as Attributed to Scipione Pulzone, and as depicting an unknown woman);

A. Vannugli, "Scipione Pulzone ritrattista," in Scipione Pulzone: Da Gaeta a Rome alle Corti europee, exhibition catalogue, A. Acocnci and A. Zuccari (eds.), Rome 2013, p. 51, reproduced fig. 18 (as possibly depicting Vittoria Accorambini);

B. Furlotti, "Scipione Pulzone's Beautiful Women: A Portrait of Lavinia della Rovere," in Rivista d'Arte 6 (2016), pp. 131-151 (proposes the sitter as Lavinia della Rovere, and as dateable to about 1575);

L. Goldenberg Stoppato, "Appunti “fiorentini” per il corpus della ritrattistica degli Orsini," in Gli Orsini e i Savelli nella Roma dei papi. Arte e mecenatismo di antichi casati dal feudo alle corti barocche europee, A. Amendola and C. Mazzetti di Pietralata (eds.), Rome 2017, pp. 313–333 (as Jacopo Zucchi, and identifies the sitter as Vittoria Accorambini).