FOLLOWER OF AGNOLO DI COSIMO CALLED BRONZINO | Portrait of Cosimo de' Medici, half-length, in an embroidered doublet with fur wrap

Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 19 April 2000, lot 75;

With Daniel Hunt Fine Art, London, from whom acquired.

This portrait shows the sitter at the age of forty and follows a much copied composition by Bronzino, the best extant version of which is generally considered to be that in the Galleria Sabauda, Turin (inv. no. 123).¹

¹ E. Baccheschi, L'opera completa del Bronzino, Milan 1973, pp. 103–04, cat. no. 113b, reproduced.