IPPOLITO LEONI (ROME 1616-1694)

Portrait of a young girl, half-length

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IPPOLITO LEONI (ROME 1616-1694)
Portrait of a young girl, half-length
dated ‘2i/ [...]ggio// 1640’
black, red and white chalk on blue paper
20.6 x 13.8 cm (8 1⁄8 x 5 3⁄8 in.)

Provenance

with Galerie J.-F. Baroni, Paris (Sélection de Dessins Anciens et du XIXème siècle, 2000, no. 11, ill.).

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Lot Essay

A similar portrait of a young girl, numbered ‘6i’ and dated 1637, is at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York (inv. It.17.16). Portraits by Ippolito Leoni are extremely rare. Giovanni Baglione (Lives of the artists, 1642) mentions two portraits by him of his master and stepfather Ottavio Leoni (now in the Accademia di San Luca, Rome, inv. 591) and of his grandfather. Ippolito inherited and carried on Ottavio’s practice of portrait drawings on blue paper after the latter died in 1630.

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