VINCENZO LEONARDI (ROME 1589/1590-1646) A flowering lemon twig (Citrus limon)
inscribed ‘ddd’ (lower centre)
black chalk, watercolour and bodycolour
27.6 x 18.9 cm (10 7/8 x 7 1/2 in.)
VINCENZO LEONARDI (ROME 1589/1590-1646) A flowering lemon twig (Citrus limon)
inscribed ‘ddd’ (lower centre)
black chalk, watercolour and bodycolour
27.6 x 18.9 cm (10 7/8 x 7 1/2 in.)
Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657), Rome; by descent to his brother, Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1606-1689); by descent to his grandson, from whom acquired by Pope Clement XI (1649-1721), Rome; from whom acquired by his nephew in 1714, Cardinal Alessandro Albani (1692-1779), Rome; from whom acquired in 1762 by King George III (1738-1820); since 1823 in the Royal Library, at Windsor Castle, until sold from the Dal Pozzo collection by the Royal Librarian, Sir John Fortescue (1859-1933) to Jacob Mendelson (died 1970), London; where acquired in the late 1930s by James R. Herbert Boone (1899-1983), New York; Sotheby’s, New York, 16-17 September 1988, lot 134.
in Giovanni Battista Ferrari, Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum cultura et usu. Libri quatuor, Rome, 1646, p. 189.
D. Freedberg and E. Baldini, The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. A Catalogue Raisonné. Series B. Natural History. Part One. Citrus Fruit, London, 1997, no.18, ill.
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