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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


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