Italian School, c. 1580

Walnut
panel, 48.7 x 35.2 cm – 19 1/8 x 13 3/4 in.

Bears an inscription on the reverse: GR'DA ni 88.

Another portrait of our subject was painted a few years earlier by a late 16th-century Florentine artist and is still held in the collections of the Palazzo Rucellai in Florence (Fig. 1).

Presumed portrait of Giovanni di Pandolfo Rucellai (1540–1620), with the Villa Rucellai in Trefiano in the distance, walnut panel