CIRCLE OF ALESSANDRO ALLORI | PORTRAIT OF A LADY, SAID TO BE A MEDICI, BUST LENGTH, WEARING A GREEN DRESS AND PEARLED NECKLACE

E. Lacombe, Paris

A. Mersch, Paris;

By whom sold to F. Kleinberger & Co., Paris, 1907;

Their sale, New York, American Art Association, 23 January 1918, lot 12 (as "Angelo Bronzino"), for $500, to E. T. Hess;

Mr. Franz Kleiberger;

His sale, New York, American Art Association, 18 November 1932, lot 18 (as Angelo Di Cosimo Allori, called Bronzino, Portrait of a Medici Princess), for $600, to A.B. Samuels;

With Tozzi Gallery, New York;

Kaplan collection;

By whom sold, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 22 January 1948, lot 53 (as Bronzino and Bottega), for $1,200, to Mrs. Muriel Banford, New York;

Carl Marks, New York;

By whose estate sold ("Property of the late Carl Marks, Esq., of New York City"), London, Sotheby's, 2 December 1964, lot 124 (as Bronzino), for £320 to the Arcade Gallery, London;

Private collection, New York, until 2019.

A. McComb, Agnolo Bronzino, His Life and Works, Cambridge 1928, p. 139 (as School of Bronzino).

Another version of this portrait identified as the manner of Alessandro Allori is in the Galleria Palatina ed Appartamenti Reali, Florence.¹ The facial features of this sitter closely resemble those of Eleonora Medici di Toledo in her portrait by the workshop of Allori at The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. ²

^1. Oil on panel, 47 by 38 cm., inv. no. 2499 /1890.

^2. Oil on panel, 67 by 52 cm., inv. no. ГЭ-6686.