Portrait of a Boy, thought to be Giovanni de' Medici (1543-1562)

Portrait of a Boy, thought to be Giovanni de' Medici (1543-1562)

SK-A-3344

Portret van een jongen, vermoedelijk Giovanni de' Medici. Ten halven lijve, voor een gordijn.

• painter: anonymous, Florence
• painter: Angelo Bronzino [rejected attribution]

1545 - 1570

oil on panel

• height 24 cm x width 18 cm
• depth 10.5 cm

Gift of Mr and Mrs Kessler-Hülsmann, Kapelle op den Bosch

gift 1940-03

Public domain

…; collection Michael Tomkinson (18411921), Kidderminster, 1905;{According to a seal at the back of the painting.} his sale, London (Christie’s), 24 February 1922, no. 157, as Bronzino (‘Portrait of the son of Cosimo I. de’ Medici’), £ 46 4 s, to the dealer Duits, London;{Copy RMA; copy RKD.} from whom, as Bronzino, £ 63 14 s, to the dealer Krantz and De Bruyn, The Hague and Rotterdam;{GRI, acc. no. 860290, Duits records, 1920-1979, picture stock books, box no. 21, no. 13.} …; collection of Dominicus Antonius Josephus Kessler (1855-1939) and Mrs A.C.M.H. Kessler-Hülsmann (1868-1947), Kapelle op den Bosch, near Mechelen;{Note RMA.} donated, with xx other objects, by Mrs A.C.M.H. Kessler-Hülsmann to the museum, 1940

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