Portrait of Maria Salviati
Painting by Pontormo
Portrait of Maria Salviati is an oil on panel painting attributed to Pontormo, executed c. 1543–1544, in the Uffizi, Florence.[1]
It was acquired by the Uffizi early in the 20th century as a work by Domenico Beccafumi. Soon afterwards Lányi identified it as a portrait of Cosimo I's mother Maria Salviati by Pontormo mentioned in Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari. Gamba found a preparatory drawing in the Uffizi's Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe (n. 6503F), but argued that the painting was produced by another painter from drawings by Pontormo, whereas he argues that Portrait of Maria Salviati with a Boy (Walters Art Gallery) is in fact the original autograph work.
Noting that the woman in the drawing seems older, in 1956 Luciano Berti argues that the painting on panel may be an idealised produced after its subject's death. Berti later argued against it being an autograph work and instead attributed it to a 16th-century Sienese artist.[2]
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Pontormo
- San Ruffillo Madonna (c. 1514)
- Scene from Hospital Life (c. 1514)
- Woman with a Basket of Spindles (c. 1514–1515, disputed)
- Joseph Sold to Potiphar (c. 1515)
- Joseph's Brothers Beg for Help (c. 1515)
- Pharaoh with his Butler and Baker (c. 1515)
- Saint Quentin (1517, disputed)
- Portrait of a Jeweler (c. 1517–1518)
- Joseph in Egypt (c. 1518)
- Pucci Altarpiece (1518)
- Portrait of a Musician (c. 1518–1519)
- Saint John the Evangelist and Michael the Archangel (c. 1519)
- Saint Anthony Abbot (c. 1519)
- Portrait of Cosimo the Elder (c. 1519–1520)
- Vertumnus and Pomona (c. 1519–1521)
- Sacrificial Scene (c. 1520)
- Adoration of the Magi (c. 1522–1523)
- Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (c. 1522–1523)
- Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Four Saints (c. 1524–1529)
- Portrait of a Young Man (c. 1525–1526)
- Penitent Saint Jerome (c. 1525–1528)
- Nativity of Saint John the Baptist (1526)
- Annunciation (c. 1527–1528)
- Deposition from the Cross (1528)
- Carmignano Visitation (c. 1528–1530)
- The Ten Thousand Martyrs (c. 1529–1530)
- Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (c. 1529–1536)
- Portrait of a Halberdier (1530)
- Venus and Cupid (c. 1533)
- Expulsion from Paradise (c. 1535)
- Madonna of the Book (c. 1540–1545)
- Portrait of Monsignor Della Casa (c. 1541–1544)
- Portrait of Maria Salviati (c. 1543–1544)
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