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Bartolomeo Passarotti
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description
- Bartolomeo Passarotti
- Study for the head of a man looking down
- oil on paper, laid on canvas
Catalogue Note
This is a preparatory study for one of the figures in Passerotti's Fishmongers, in a private collection (fig. 1). The Fishmongers was part of series of four pictures in the Mattei Collection in Rome, which included The Butchers, another Fishmongers in the Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Barberini, Rome, and the Chicken Sellers in the Fondazione Longhi in Florence.1 Head studies sketched on paper became popular in Bologna in around 1580, particularly with the Carracci family: see, for example, the head study on paper sold in these Rooms, 5 July 2017, lot 30.
The attribution for this and the following lot has been endorsed by Professor Daniele Benati.
1. See A. Ghirardi, Passerotti, catalogo generale, Rimini 1990, pp. 236-37, cat. nos 64 and 65, and pp. 238-39, cat. no. 66, all reproduced.