Vincenzo Dandini Florence 1609 - 1675

S. Bellesi, Vincenzo Dandini e la pittura a Firenze alla metà del secolo, Pisa 2003, p. 201, cat. no. 91, reproduced

Each framed in modern frames. The Dandini is worn at the edges of the sheet, and has a grey wash-type stain at the centre, another smaller, circular stain below it. The sheet is yellowed, but the chalk is still strong. The other four sheets are in a similar condition; only one has quite a few small brown and grey spot stains in the left half of the sheet. Not seen out of frames.
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Bellesi (see Literature) places this study amongst a group of academic drawings which are mostly given to Vincenzo's nephew and pupil, Pietro Dandini.  Three other studies by Vincenzo do, however, appear to show the same posed model from different angles: at the Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence (inv.no. E36), the Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe (inv.no. F.C. 125423) and the Louvre (inv. no. 1131).¹

Sold with four other 17th Century Florentine red chalk academy studies, each measuring circa 420 by 280mm, three bearing numbering in brown ink, upper right.

 

1.  Bellesi, op.cit., cat.nos. 70, 81, 85