print
- Museum number
- 1910,0610.150
- Title
- Object: Cosimo III Gran Duca di Toscana VI
- Description
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Portrait of Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, full length, turned to the left, with his head in three-quarter view turned to the right; wearing the robes of the Grand Master of the Order of Santo Stefano, his left arm on his hip, his right arm pointing to the harbour of Livorno seen through an arch. Watermark encircled fleur-de-lys
Etching
- Production date
- 1700 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 264 millimetres
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Width: 185 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- After a preparatory drawing of almost identical dimensions by Foggini in the Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence (inv. C 99; see K. Langedijk, "The Portraits of the Medici", Florence, 1981, vol. I, p. 612, fig. 29,56). The print reverses the composition of the drawing, with the exception of the view of the harbour, which is shown in the same direction. The print was made for Fulvio Fontana's book "I Pregi della Toscana nell' Imprese più segnalate de' Cavalieri di Santo Stefano, dedicata all' Altezza Reale di Cosimo III Gran Duca di Toscana e Gran Maestro nell' Ordine", Florence, 1701.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1910
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1910,0610.150
