FRANCESCO DE’ ROSSI, called SALVIATI
Florence 1510–1563 Rome
The Levites Carrying Sacred Objects in Procession to the Temple
Inscribed, lower left, Salviati, and di Frco. Sal.ti, verso; also, inscribed, No. 43 in black ink and TG. in brown ink on the old mount
Pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white, over traces of black chalk underdrawing on buff paper
11 ¼ 17 inches
285 x 430 mm
Provenance
The Sackville-West family, Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent
The Trustees of the Knole Settled Estates (sale: London, Christie’s, 1 April 1987, lot 104)
Dr. Carlo Croce, Philadelphia
Colnaghi, London, 1994
Mr. and Mrs. Seymour R. Askin, Jr., Greenwich, Connecticut,
Thence by descent
Literature
C. Bambach Cappel, “The Uffizi’s Sixteenth-Century Drawings in Detroit and some Tuscan Drawings in Philadelphia” (exhibition review), in Master Drawings, vol. 28, no. 2, 1990, p. 209, fig. 10, p. 218, note 34
L. Mortari, Francesco Salviati, Rome, 1992, p. 221, cat. no. 301, illustrated
C. Monbeig Goguel, Francesco Salviati (1510-1563), o la Bella Maniera, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Villa Medici, and Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1998, p. 185, under cat. no. 59, illustrated
Exhibitions
New York and London, Colnaghi, An Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, 1994, cat. no. 2, illustrated
Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Studied Elegance: Italian Master Drawings from the Askin Collection, 2007, pp. 40-41, cat. no. 11, illustrated, cover, detail illustration (cat. by A. C. Weislogel)
New York, The Morgan Library, Rome after Raphael, 22 January 2010 – 9 May 2010, without a catalogue
Drawn circa 1552-1553
PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK