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Bartolomeo Passarotti (1529-92)
Minerva 1560-90
Pen and ink | 40.8 x 26.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 906038
Bartolomeo Passarotti (1529-92)
Minerva 1560-90
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A drawing of a bust of Minerva with a fantastical helmet. Bodmer thought this was by a follower of Passarotti (note on mount, erased); though the penwork of the face is facile, the handling of the hellmet and tunic is good and free, and both Popham (in P&W) and Höper (1987) accepted it as autograph.
This is one of a number of 'ideal heads' drawn by Passarotti (others are in the Uffizi and Modena), and it was presumably drawn as a finished work rather than a study for a painting.
Stamped with the eight-pointed star associated with Nicholas Lanier, and inscribed in a hand of the eighteenth century 'del Passerotto'.Provenance
From the collection of Nicholas Lanier (his stamp, Lugt 2885); presumably acquired by Charles II. Listed in George III's Inventory A, c.1800, p. 55, ‘Zucharo Passarotti e Altri Maestri’, among ‘46 to 54. By Passarotti.’
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Pen and ink
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40.8 x 26.0 cm (sheet of paper)
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