Probably commissioned by Niccolo Gaddi (1537 – 1591), Florence;
Luigi Koelliker Collection, Milan, until approximately 15 years ago when acquired by a:
Private collection, Florence, from whom acquired by the present owner.
Exhibitions
Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Il Cinquecento a Firenze: “maniera moderna” e controriforma, 21 September 2017 – 21 January 2018.
Literature
L. Conigliello, ‘Jacopo Ligozzi tra turchi, fantolini e disegni di architetture’, Paragone, s. III, nos. 84-85, 2009, pp. 52-53, note 25 (as Jacopo Ligozzi);
A. Nesi, ‘Problemi di ritrattistica cinquecentesca: Maso da San Friano ed altri pittori a lui contemporanei’, Arte Cristiana, XCVIII, 2010, pp. 189-190, reproduced in black and white on p. 192, fig. 17;
A. Fenech Kroke, in Florence. Portraits à la cour des Médicis, exh. cat., (ed.) C. Falciani, Brussels 2015, pp. 173, 183, under cat. no. 37;
C. Acidini Luchinat, ‘Ritratto di Sinibaldo Gaddi’, in Il Cinquecento a Firenze: “maniera moderna” e controriforma, exh. cat., (eds.) C. Falciani & A. Natali, Florence 2017, p. 150, cat. no. IV.2, reproduced in colour on p. 151.