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Artist/Maker(s): Domenico Ferretti (Italian, 1692 - about 1769)
Culture: Italian
Date: 1740
Medium: Black chalk, with stumping and brush and gray wash, heightened with white bodycolor, on light brown paper
Dimensions: 37 x 23.3 cm (14 9/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
Markings: Markings: At lower right corner, small “R” mark of the English collector Jonathan Richardson Junior (1694-1771) (L 2170) At lower left corner, “CR” the collector's mark of the drawing's immediately successive owner, Charles Rogers (1711-1784) (L624)
Inscriptions: Inscription: At bottom of the sheet, inscribed on the stone tablet affixed to the front of the ledge, “Eq. Franc[cisc]us M[ari]a Nicolaus Gabburrius / Patritius Florentinus A Et: Suae Ann. Lxv. / Nobili. Academiae.” Picturae. Artis. Urbis / Florentiae Simulacrum. Praefecti. Optimi / sui Bonarumque. Artium. Maecenatis, a se / delineatum, grati. Animi. Monumentum. / D. D. / Io: Dom[enic]us Ferretti. Pict. Flor. delin, ed Vivu[m]. An. MDCCXXXX. [Francesco Maria Niccolo Gabburri, citizen of Florence, aged 65 years, perfect of the Noble Academy of the Art of Painting of the city of Florence, among the best patrons of the Fine Arts, drawn for him as a monument to his noble spirit and given to him by Giovanni Domenico Ferretti, painter from Florence, who did it from life.
SKU: 200676
