Lot 274
  • 274

Circle of Agnolo Bronzino

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Description

  • Agnolo Bronzino
  • Portrait of a Young Man, said to be Pietro di Cosimo I di Medici
  • oil on panel

Provenance

Sir George Lindsay Holford, by 1924;
His sale, London, Christie's, July 15, 1927, lot 25 (as by Bronzino), for £441 to Colnaghi;
With P. & D. Colnaghi, London;
With Galeria Muller, Buenos Aires, from whom purchased by the family of the present owner in 1946.

Exhibited

Manchester, Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857, no. 181.

Literature

The Holford Collection, 1924, no. 54, reprocuded plate LV (as Pietro di Cosimo, by Bronzino)
K. Langedijk, The Portraits of the Medici, 15th-18th Centuries, vol. II, Florence 1983, p. 1351, no. 4bis., reproduced p. 1352, fig. 100,4 bis (as Pietro di Cosimo, by Bronzino).