Bianca Capello, a Venetian lady, mistress and afterwards second wife to Francis the First, Great Duke ... [art original].

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Title: Bianca Capello, a Venetian lady, mistress and afterwards second wife to Francis the First, Great Duke ... [art original].
Published / Created: [17--?]
Publication Place: Italy?
Description: Title from manuscript text on verso in Horace Walpole's hand.
Note on verso continues: " ... she married first a Florentine, for wch. his father disenherited him, and being reduced, she maintained herself and husband by washing linnen ..."
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
Watercolors 18th century
Material: watercolor ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Bianca, Grand-Duchess, consort of Francesco I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1548-1587
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Art collections
Subjects: Bianca, Grand-Duchess, consort of Francesco I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1548-1587 > 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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