Allegorical Male Figure [Falsehood])?¿(

XVI century. Wash, Grey-brown ink, Pencil on yellow paper.
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Paul Joannides has suggested that a corresponding figure may appear in Salviati´s fresco decoration in the Sala dell´Udienza, the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. The man has three faces and three animal masks at his breast. A serpent is entwined around the man´s body, with its head emerging above the man´s head.

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Inventory number: D001659
Author: Anonymous (Copy after: Francesco (Francesco de' Rossi) Salviati)
Title: Allegorical Male Figure [Falsehood(¿?)]
Date: XVI century
Technique: Wash; Grey-brown ink; Pencil
Support: Yellow paper
Dimension: Width: 142 mm; Height: 242 mm
Provenance: Royal Collection

Bibliography +

Museo Nacional del Prado, Catálogo de dibujos. Dibujos italianos del siglo XVI (por Nicholas Turner, con la colaboración de José Manuel Matilla), V, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2004, pp. 383.

Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci. A century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Art Services International, Chicago, 2008, pp. 383.

Other inventories +

Inv. General, Sección 3ª. Dibujos, grabados, acuarelas y miniaturas, 1879. Núm. 24.
Una figura mitológica. A[utor] L. Lotto. alto025 p.0,15. marco negro y cristal

Inv. Dibujos, Fondo Antiguo. Núm. 668.

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N ^o 40
Front, lower right corner

Update date: 20-05-2026 | Registry created on 28-04-2015

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