Property from a Private New York Collection
Attributed to Matteo Rosselli
Portrait of a young man, bust length
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private New York Collection
Attributed to Matteo Rosselli
(Florence 1578 - 1650)
Portrait of a young man, bust length
Black and red chalk;
bears numbering in brown ink, upper right: 100
204 by 144 mm
With Emmanuel Moatti, London,
where acquired by the present owner
This confidently handled, and finely preserved drawing is highly reminiscent of the head studies of the Florentine born artist, Matteo Rosselli. Together with Cristofano Allori (1577-1621), Jacopo da Empoli (1551-1640) and Lodovico Cigoli (1559-1613), Rosselli was one of the late sixteenth-century Florentine artists who rejected the elaborate excesses and artifice of late mannerism and moved towards a more natural style which became a hallmark of the Florentine baroque. The present work, executed in a distinctive combination of black and red chalk, can be compared on stylistic grounds to a small group of drawings by Rosselli in the Musée du Louvre, similarly depicting the distinctive facial features of those figures he so evidently studied from life.1
1.Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. nos. 1537-1542
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