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Artist or Maker: Attributed to Baccio Bandinelli (Gaiole in Chianti 1488-1560 Florence)
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Provenance: with Julius Böhler, Munich, from whom acquired in 1922 by
Julius H. Haass, Detroit, and by descent to his daughter
Mrs. Trent McMath (née Constance Haass), Grosse Pointe, Michigan, until 1956.
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Notes: Baccio Bandinelli is best known as a sculptor, the bitter rival of Michelangelo and Cellini. Vasari, among others, mentions that he also worked in oils, and he took lessons in painting from his friends Andrea del Sarto and the young Rosso Fiorentino. Bandinelli's penchant for self-portraits is well known, and a considerable number of sculpted self-images are known (see I. Galicka and H. Sygietynska, 'A newly discovered Self-Portrait by Baccio Bandinelli', The Burlington Magazine, CXXXIV, no. 1077, December 1992, pp. 805-7), with the distinctive features of a flattened profile, thin nose and long flowing beard. Another painted self-portrait, depicting a more youthful artist is in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, and a number of similar drawings also exist, one in the British Museum shows the ageing artist in profile.
We are grateful to Dr. Roger Ward for tentatively confirming the attribution from photographs.
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