Florentine School, 16th century Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, in a black slashed doublet, his hand resting on a helmet oil on panel 34 x 27 5⁄8 in. (86 x 72 cm.)
Florentine School, 16th century Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, in a black slashed doublet, his hand resting on a helmet oil on panel 34 x 27 5⁄8 in. (86 x 72 cm.)
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1924, lot 31, as ‘Attributed to Bronzino’, and as a ‘supposed Portrait of Francesco Ferrucci’ (£53 to Power). In the family of the present owners for two generations.
We are grateful to Peter Cannon-Brookes for proposing an attribution to Maso da San Friano, and dating the picture to the late 1560s.
