Live Auction 2237The Scholars Eye: Property from the Julius Held Collection Part I
Giovanni Battista Naldini (Fiesole c. 1537-1591 Florence)
Lot 5

Giovanni Battista Naldini (Fiesole c. 1537-1591 Florence)

Lorenzo de Medici, after Michelangelo

Closed27 January 2009

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Giovanni Battista Naldini (Fiesole c. 1537-1591 Florence)
Lorenzo de Medici, after Michelangelo
black and red chalk on brown prepared paper
11 x 6 7/8 in. (276 x 173 mm.)

Sir Joshua Reynolds (L. 2364).
W. Mayor (L. 2799).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 21 November 1974, lot 17.

Specialist note

After Michelangelo's marble sculpture of Lorenzo de Medici (1449-1492) carved in the late 1520s for the Medici Chapel in San Lorenzo, Florence. Naldini made several drawings after Michelangelo's sculpture, including another in black and red chalk in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. 378; see Rosenberg, nos. NZ 327-342 for all drawings by Naldini after sculpture in the Medici Chapel).