Annibale Fontana
approximately 1540-1587.
Bust of Alfonso II d'Avalos
Bronze.
base: 8 x 10 inches (203 x 254 mm); bust: 27 1/2 x 24 1/4 inches (699 x 615 mm)
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Possibly commissioned by Francesco Ferdinando d'Avalos (1530-1571; viceroy of Sicily 1568-71), Palermo; by descent in the d'Avalos family, Naples, until 1883; Jacques Seligmann (1858-1923), Paris; from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905 (as Benvenuto Cellini).
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