



Lot 6
Attributed to Jan van der Straet called Giovanni Stradano(Bruges 1523-1605 Florence)Studies of female costumes
6 December 2023, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £5,120 inc. premium
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Attributed to Jan van der Straet called Giovanni Stradano (Bruges 1523-1605 Florence)
Studies of female costumes
extensively inscribed (upper and lower centre) and bears inscription 'De Mano de Juanes stradanus:' (lower centre)
pen and brown ink and coloured wash over traces of black chalk on paper
20.4 x 32.8cm (8 1/16 x 12 15/16in).
extensively inscribed (upper and lower centre) and bears inscription 'De Mano de Juanes stradanus:' (lower centre)
pen and brown ink and coloured wash over traces of black chalk on paper
20.4 x 32.8cm (8 1/16 x 12 15/16in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Sale, Sotheby's, New York, 12 January 1990, lot 49 (sold for $11,000)
With Michel Segoura, Paris, 1992, where purchased by the late owner
Literature
A. Baroni Vannucci, Jan Van De Straet detto Giovanni Stradano flandrus pictor et inventor, Milan, 1997, p. 196 cat. no. 111
The present work depicts a Florentine bride; a Florentine lady; a Florentine widow; a servant; and a lady from the hills behind Pistoia, as implied by the inscriptions.