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Design for a decorative wall painting

Lost Art-ID
626305
Artist / Creator
Allori, Alessandro
Birth
1535.05.31, Florenz
Death
1607.09.21, Florenz
Place of activity
Rom, Florenz
Title
Design for a decorative wall painting
Dating
1580 (around)
Object type
Drawing
Group of reported objects
Graphic
Material / Technique
Paper ; Chalk black ; Bistre / drawn (pen-and-ink drawing) ; inked
Height
44.00 cm
Width
31.50 cm
Inventory number
1941:5 Z
Description

Design perhaps for a lunette fresco in the Chiostro grande of S. Maria Novella, Florence; formerly thought to be a design for S. Maria Maggiore (see inscription)

Verso: Lugt number L. 2445 (Sir Thomas Lawrence); stamp: SGSM 18 / Lugt 1094c in brown; old inscription on the verso of the sheet: ‘...Lo fece Alessandro Allori ma fu colourito da Bernardino Pocetti in S. Maria Magiore.’; lower left in light red: ‘1799’ or ‘A Z 99’ (reading not clear)

Provenance

c. 1580 - undated Alessandro Allori (1535-1607), Florence

after 1580 - n.d. Whereabouts unknown

undated - 1830 Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), London

1834 - Archibald Keightley (1795 - 1877), executor of the will of Sir Thomas Lawrence

c. 1834 - 1853 Samuel Woodburn (1783 - 1853)

1853 - 4/8 June 1860 probably Miss Woodburn, daughter of Samuel Woodburn

no later than 1860 - 21 May 1941 whereabouts unknown

undated - 21.05.1941 Dr Alois Albrecht, Vienna, consigned to the auction at Adolf Weinmüller, Munich

since 21 May 1941 Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, acquired in the auction at Adolf Weinmüller, Munich

An NS-related confiscation cannot be ruled out.

Literature / Source
Aukt.-Kat. Münchener Kunstversteigerungshaus Adolf Weinmüller: Handzeichnungen, Druckgraphik, illustrierte Bücher des 15. - 19. Jahrhunderts: 20. und 21. Mai 1941, München 1941, Katalog 27, Los-Nr. 12, Einlieferer "Albrecht".
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