Live Auction 2855Old Master Paintings
Florentine School, c. 1600
Lot 112 Property from an Estate

Florentine School, c. 1600

Portrait of Filippo di Francesco I de' Medici

Closed4 June 2014

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USD 65,000

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Florentine School, c. 1600
Portrait of Filippo di Francesco I de' Medici
oil on canvas
46 x 31 in. (116.8 x 78.8 cm.), with a 3¼ in. (8.2 cm.) addition to the upper edge

with Stanley Moss, New York, from whom acquired by the family of the present owner.

Specialist note

Another version of this portrait, in which Filippo di Francesco I (1577-1582) holds a letter in his right hand and appears before a green curtain with only the rabbit by his side, was on loan at the Spanish embassy in Rome (Madrid, Prado, no. 1956; see K. Langedijk, The Portraits of the Medici, Florence, 1983, III, pp. 845-846, no. 4, fig. 41,4, as Alessandro Allori). Here, Filippo appears holding a portrait medal of his father, Francesco I de' Medici (1541-1587), which is dated 1593, possibly the year in which this posthumous portrait was painted.