Medallion with a Male Bust

Early Finales del siglo XVI - XVII century. Red chalk on paper.
Not on display

The drawing is pasted down onto an eighteenth-century Italian backing. There seems lacking connection with the work of the Sienese master Francesco Vanni.

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Inventory number: D001420
Author: Attributed to Francesco Vanni
Title: Medallion with a Male Bust
Date: Early Finales del siglo XVI - XVII century
Technique: Red chalk
Support: Paper
Dimension: Width: 197 mm; Height: 112 mm
Provenance: Bequest of Pedro Fernández Durán y Bernaldo de Quirós, 1931; I. Brun
Entry date: 1931

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. 405.

Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracc: a century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Art Services International, Virginia, 2008, pp. 405.

Other inventories +

Inv. Legado Pedro Fernández Durán, 1931. Núm. 475.

Inscriptions +

maniera del Vanni da Siena
Inscribed in pen and brown ink. Back

Update date: 02-06-2026 | Registry created on 28-04-2015

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