Live Auction 7744Old Masters & 19th Century Art Day Sale
Bartolommeo Traballesi (Florence c. 1540-1585)
Lot 245

Bartolommeo Traballesi (Florence c. 1540-1585)

Portrait of a lady, possibly Maddalena Salvetti (1557-1610), three-quarter-length, in a green dress and pearls, standing by a draped table, with a pet squirrel

Closed8 July 2009

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GBP 37,250

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Bartolommeo Traballesi (Florence c. 1540-1585)
Portrait of a lady, possibly Maddalena Salvetti (1557-1610), three-quarter-length, in a green dress and pearls, standing by a draped table, with a pet squirrel
oil on panel, the reverse branded with the mark 'A·A'
38¼ x 29 in. (97.2 x 73.7 cm.)

with G. Donaldson, Renaissance Galleries, 104 New Bond Street; Christie's, London, 9 July 1901, lot 45, as 'Bronzino'.
Anonymous sale; Henri Baudoin, Paris, 24 June 1922, as 'School of Bronzino'.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 11 January 1996, lot 51, as 'Tommaso Manzuoli, Portrait of an elegant woman said to be Maddalena Acciaiolli'.

Specialist note

Lisa Goldenberg Stoppato proposed the attribution to Traballesi in private correspondence with the present owner (October 2008) and suggested that the sitter might be Maddalena Salvetti (1557-1610), daughter of Salvetto di Niccolò Salvetti and wife of Zanobi di Acciaiuolo Acciaiuoli.