Bust Of an Old Woman in Profile to Right

Rogers Fund, 1962

Catalogue

Year
1494
Dimensions
7 7/8 x 5 5/8in. (20 x 14.3cm)

Artist

Rosso Fiorentino
Rosso Fiorentino

Painting

Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, known as Rosso Fiorentino or Il Rosso, was an Italian Mannerist painter who worked in oil and fresco and belonged to the Florentine school.

Florence, Italy

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