GIOVANNI MARIA BUTTERI
Florence 1540–1606 Florence
Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio and Other Tuscan Men of Letters
Pen and brown ink
11 ½ x 10 ⅛ inches
292 x 257 mm
Provenance
Unidentified collector’s mark (Lugt 4699, associated with Nicholas Lanier)
P. & D. Colnaghi, London
Sale: London, Christie’s, 10 July 1973, lot 66 (as attributed to Sodoma)
Prof. Eric Stanley (1923–2018), Oxford,
By descent
Literature
R. Scorza, “A New Drawing for the Florentine ‘Apparato’ of 1565: Borghini, Butteri and the ‘Tuscan Poets,’” in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 127, no. 993, December 1985, pp. 887-90, fig. 79 (as Butteri)
R. Scorza, “Borghini, Butteri and Allori: A Further Drawing for the 1565 ‘Apparato,’” in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 137, no. 1104, March 1995, pp. 172 (as Butteri)
A. M. Petrioli Tofani, Michelangelo, Vasari and Their Contemporaries: Drawings from the Uffizi, exhibition catalogue, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2008, p. 161 (as “replica, probably not autograph”)
R. Eitel Porter and J. Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, exhibition catalogue, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, pp. 315-27, under cat. no. 100 (as Butteri)
HERBERT F. JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ART, CORNELL UNIVERSITY