Maso Finiguerra (Florence 1426-1464)

Emerging from the workshop of Antonio Pollaiuolo, Maso Finiguerra became one of the most innovative Florentine draughtsmen of the Early Renaissance. Gracefully executed in his typically neat, linear manner, the sheet relates to his numerous portraits in profile of young men and children now in the Uffizi. Outlined and pasted into albums, most of his sheets from the Pelli-Fabbroni collection in Florence survive in a similar fragmentary state (see Melli, op. cit., nos. 77-79, 141-42, 148, ill.).