MARIO BALASSI
Portrait of Marquess Giovanni di Jacopo Corsi (1600 – 1661)
Period 17th century
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimension 70.7 x 54 cm (27⁷/₈ x 21¹/₄ inches)
Period: 17th century
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signature: Inscribed and dated, lower left, on the letter: “All’Ill:mo Sig:re e P:rone Coll.mo/ Il Sig:re March.e Gio: Corsi / Firenze/ 1661.”
Dimension: 70.7 x 54 cm (27⁷/₈ x 21¹/₄ inches)
Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter's son, Cardinal Domenico Maria Corsi, and paid for in 1662 (Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Guicciardini Corsi Salviati, Libri di amministrazione 547, c.5r.);
probably Rome, collection of Cardinal Domenico Maria Corsi;
Villa Corsi, Sesto Fiorentino.
Literature: F Berti, Mario Balassi (1602-1667), Catalogo completo dei dipinti e dei disegni, Florence 2015, cat. n. 58, p. 149, reproduced pl. 29, fig. 70
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