King Wilhelm of Wuretemberg; P. Jackson Higgs, New York;
Sale, American Art Association/Anderson galleries, New York, December 7, 1932, lot 34, illustrated, as “Bronzino”;
William Fox, New York; Private collection
S.L. Giovannoni, Alessandro Allori, 1991, p. 307, no. 196, illustrated Pl. XVI, as “Allori, location unknown”
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The sitter in this portrait, so sumptuously dressed in a golden gown embellished with embroidery and pearls, as been identified as Bianca Capello de’Medici, a member of a Venetian noble family. Although her parents forbade it, Bianca eloped at age seventeen with Piero Buonaventura, a bell-born yet impoverished Florentine suitor. Her family chased the couple, even putting a bounty of 2,00 ...
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