AN ITALIAN 17TH CENTURY CARVED, GILDED AND PAINTED CASSETTA FRAME
with plain gilded cavetto sight edge, raised inner edge, the central plate with continuous gilt scrolling foliage on black ground, gilt raised outer edge
sight edge:103.5 x 42 cm
rebate: 105.3 x 44.4 cm
section width: 12 cm
overall: 126.5 x 66 cm

PROVENANCE:

With Conte Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence
Exhibited at Mostra di Leonardo da Vinci, Palazzo dell''arte, Milano 1939
With The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Painters of reality: the legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy, 2004
(according to labels to reverse)