Alessandro Allori

Portrait of either Eleonora (“Dianora”) di Toledo de' Medici or Virginia de' Medici

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January 26, 05:50 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

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Property of a Private Collector

Alessandro Allori

Florence 1535 - 1607

Portrait of either Eleonora (“Dianora”) di Toledo de' Medici or Virginia de' Medici

oil on copper

copper: 6⅝ by 5⅛ in.; 16.8 by 13.0 cm.

framed: 11⅛ by 9½ in.; 28.3 by 24.1 cm.

Acquired by the present collector, 2012.

C. Beuzelin, in Florence, Portraits à la cour des Médicis, exhibition catalogue, C. Falciani (ed.), Paris 2015, p. 135, cat. no. 23, reproduced in color (as Dianora di Toledo de Medici).

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Florence, Portraits à la cour des Médicis, 11 September 2015 - 25 January 2016, no. 23.