Found-Object Report | Object report
Portrait bust of Grand Duke Ferdinando I de`Medici [formerly: ‘Bust of Prince Ippolito Medici’]
Lost Art-ID
625202
Artist / Creator
Francavilla, Pietro (1548) (Attribution since 2008)
Birth
1548, Cambrai (Nord)
Death
25.08.1615, Paris
Place of activity
Florenz, Rom, Genua, Pisa, Paris, Innsbruck
Artist / Creator
Bandinelli, Baccio (Former attribution until 2008)
Birth
1493.11.12, Florenz
Death
1560.02.07, Florenz
Place of activity
Florenz; Loreto; Lucca; Genua; Rom
Title
Portrait bust of Grand Duke Ferdinando I de`Medici [formerly: ‘Bust of Prince Ippolito Medici’]
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Marble / sculpted
Height
72.00 cm
Width
60.00 cm
Depth
35.00 cm
Inventory number
mü13612
Description
According to investigations by the former Munich Cultural Property Trust, the white marble bust was acquired in Italy as a work of art by the Italian sculptor Baccio Bandirelli (1493-1560). The artwork is on loan to the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover. The catalogue from 1985, which presents the museum's new acquisitions between 1976 and 1985, explains that it cannot be a work by Bandinelli. Rather, the artwork was created by the artist Pietro Francavilla, who lived from 1548 to 1615. It does not depict Prince Ippolito Medici (1511- 1535), but the Grand Duke Ferdinando I de Medici (1549- 1609).
Provenance
The purchase for the German Reich "Sonderauftrag Linz" took place on 12.6.1941 in Rome at Barbirini. The purchase price for this and another sculpture is stated as 350,000 lire. The buyer was the then Chief President of the Province of Hesse-Nassau, Prince Philipp of Hesse. The former owner is not known.
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Contact
Kunstverwaltung des Bundes
Herbert-Bayer-Straße 5
13086 Berlin
Germany
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