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Bernardo Buontalenti
1536-1608
Standing Woman in Costume, and Separate Study for Her Headdress
1589
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over black chalk, on paper.
9 5/8 x 6 1/2 inches (246 x 166 mm)
Gift of Mrs. Donald M. Oenslager, 1982.
1982.75:171
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Watermark: none.
This costume design is strikingly similar to many of those in Buontalenti's scene designs for the Intermezzi of "La Pellegrina" performed in the Uffizi 2 May, 1589 on the occasion of the nuptials of the Grand Duke Ferdinand and Christine of Lorraine.
Inscription:
Inscribed on verso, at upper left, in black chalk, "Colnaghi"; at upper right, in black chalk, "Suo Dis 48"; in lower right corner, in black chalk, illegible inscription; over this, in black chalk, "7084".
Provenance:
P. & D. Colnaghi and Co., London in 1960 (check dealer's cat. 1960, no. 72, repr., as Buontalenti, Two Studies o fa Lady facing right ); Charles E. Slatkin Gallery, New York, from whom purchased in 1961 by Donald Oenslager (1902-1975), New York for $241.75.
Associated names:
Oenslager, Donald, 1902-1975, former owner.
Bibliography:
London 1960, no. 72; Providence 1970, no. 106; Madison 1973, 86, no. 36.
Oenslager 1975, no. 12, repr.
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