ALESSANDRO ALLORI (FLORENCE 1535-1607) AND GIOVANNI MARIA BUTTERI (FLORENCE 1540-1606/08)

ALESSANDRO ALLORI (FLORENCE 1535-1607) AND GIOVANNI MARIA BUTTERI (FLORENCE 1540-1606/08)
Portrait of Dianora Salviati, Marchesa Frescobaldi, full-length
Inscribed 'Dianora Salviati Mogliedi Bartolomeo de Frescobaldi Fece cinquantadue Figlioli em aimeno di tre P Parto. / Come refirisce Gio: Schenchio ne libri delle sue osservavationu nuove, ammirabili, e mostrvos, e cioe nell liro / quarto del Parto, a carte 144.' (lower center)
oil on canvas
79 x 40 in. (200.6 x 101.6 cm.)

Provenance
(Possibly) Frescobaldi collection, Florence, from whom acquired in 1847 by,
(Possibly) Demidoff collection, Florence, their sale,
(Possibly) ['Collections de San Donato'], Boulevard des Italiens 26, Paris, 3 March 1870, lot 145, as Bronzino.
(Possibly) M.L. Trilha, Paris, by whom sold,
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 18-19 December 1876, lot 8.
Emma Allori (1911-1989), Sanary sur Mer, and by descent to her daughters,
Elizabeth Irène Francine Valentin (1936-1991) and Josette Jacqueline Anne-Marie Valentin (1938-2017), and by whom bequeathed to the present owner in 2017.