fine old master drawings

(attributed to) Francesco de’Rossi (Il Salviati) (Florence 1510 - 1563 Rome) Italian A Study after Michelangelo Buonarroti Brown pen and ink with gray wash on laid paper with chamfered corners. Inscribed (lower right) in brown ink: “Mi.an Bonarotti” Tipped in early collector’s mount with ink ruled lines 8.1 x 4.9 inches Ex. collection: Lugt 1729 (mark unidentified in Lugt) collector’s stamp in blue ink at left center stamped in blue ink: LG with crown at lower left ex.: Sothebys London Francesco Salviati was greatly influenced by Michelangelo. He was a pupil of Baccio Bandinelli and later worked with Giorgio Vasari. In Rome he decorated the Palazzo Farnese and Palazzo Sacchetti. This highly fluid and deft ink study has a traditional attribution to Salviati and may have been executed during his period with Bandinelli. for further see: Bean, Jacob “Italian Renaissance Drawings from the Musee du Louvre,Paris” Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 1974 cat. 65 Oberhuber, K. and Walker, D. “Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings from the Collection of Janos Scholz” National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1973 cat 29 pps. 36-38 Griswold W.M. and Wolk-Simon L. “Sixtenth Century Italian Drawings in New York Collections” Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 1994 Cat. 25 p. 30-31, 166