Live Auction 2657Old Master Paintings Part II
Alessandro Allori (Florence 1535-1607)
Lot 219

Alessandro Allori (Florence 1535-1607)

Noli me tangere

Closed26 January 2012

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Alessandro Allori (Florence 1535-1607)
Noli me tangere
oil on copper
14 3/8 x 12 3/8 in. (36.5 x 31.4 cm.)

Ashburnham Collection by 1760.
Purchased with the Humphrey Morice Collection in 1786 by the 2nd Earl of Ashburnham.
Ashburnham sale; Sotheby's, London, 24 June 1953, lot 28, as 'School of Michelangelo' (£70).
with The Bute Gallery, London, 31 July 1964, where acquired by Leo Steinberg ($250).

Specialist note

Dated to the early 1570s by Jonathan Katz Nelson (loc. cit.), this copper reproduces figures from a lost cartoon that Michelangelo made for Pontormo in the early 1530s. Elizabeth Pilliod confirmed the attribution to Allori on the basis of first-hand inspection in 1990, suggesting a dating to the early 1560s.