Eleanora of Toledo wife of Cosmo the Great, first great Duke of Tuscany [art original].

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Title: Eleanora of Toledo wife of Cosmo the Great, first great Duke of Tuscany [art original].
Alternative Title: Eleanor of Toledo with her son
Published / Created: [17--?]
Publication Place: Italy?
Description: Title from manuscript note on verso.
Manuscript note on verso in Horace Walpole's hand: "Eleanora of Toledo wife of Cosmo the Great, first great Duke of Tuscany."
One from a group of six portraits cited in the 1774 Strawberry Hill catalogue: Six curious pictures in water-colours of Mary de Medici and Louis 13th. and five great duchesses of Tuscany; copied from a chamber at Poggio Imperiale near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very cloaths [sic] they wore, pasted on the hangings, with the faces painted on sattin [sic].
Cited in the 1842 sale text: Six curious pictures, in water colours, of Mary de Medici and Louis XIII, and five Great Duchesses of Tuscany, copied from a chamber at the Pazzio Imperiale, near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very clothes they wore, placed on the hangings, with the faces painted on satin.
Provenance: 1842, May 14, Day 18, Lot 110 bt Earl of Derby, £5.5.0; 1954 July 2, Christie's, Derby Sale, Lot 207 to Agnew & Sons for W.S. Lewis September 1954. The lot of six drawings also included a Flemish drawing of a Female Saint worshipping a crucifix.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 337 x 198 mm
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Portrait drawings
Watercolors 18th century
Material: watercolor ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Eleonora, di Toledo, Duchess, consort of Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1522-1562
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Art collections
Subjects: Eleonora, di Toledo, Duchess, consort of Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1522-1562 > Portraits
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Art collections
18th century
Walpole Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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