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Mario Balassi: Portrait of Vittoria della Rovere as Saint Vittoria  wikidata:Q121868620 reasonator:Q121868620
Artist
Mario Balassi  (1604–1667)  wikidata:Q1174322
 
Mario Balassi
Alternative names
Balacci; Balassi; Marco Balassi
Description Italian painter
Date of birth/death 1604 Edit this at Wikidata 3 October 1667 / 9 October 1667 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Florence Florence
Work period baroque
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creator QS:P170,Q1174322
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Title
Portrait of Vittoria della Rovere as Saint Vittoria
label QS:Len,"Portrait of Vittoria della Rovere as Saint Vittoria"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Portrait of Vittoria della Rovere (1622-1694), wife of Ferdinando II de' Medici (1610-1670)
Depicted people Vittoria della Rovere Edit this at Wikidata
Date Probably 1637 (The present painting was probably executed whilst Balassi was still in Florence before he travelled to Rome and Vienna.)
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 83 cm (32.6 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 64 cm (25.1 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+83U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+64U174728
Object history

Provenance:

  • Commissioned from the artist by Cardinal Carlo de Medici;
  • With Galerie Canesso, Paris, from whom acquired by the present owner in September 1999.
  • Auction: Sotheby's, London, 4 December 2008, Old Master Paintings Day Sale, lot 178 [1]
Exhibition history London, Voena and Robilant, Pittura Fiorentina XVII Secolo. Collezione Koelliker, 2003, pp. 10, 11, 41.
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MAR / BALASSI / F.
References https://www.wga.hu/html_m/b/balassi/balassi8.html Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer Sotheby's

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