Falcon
16th-17th century
Artists
Dimensions
32.8 x 15.5 x 23 cm (12 15/16 x 6 1/8 x 9 1/16 in.) with base: 47.3 x 22 x 23 cm (18 5/8 x 8 11/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
Provenance
Medici family, Villa Reale, Castello (Florence). Professor Elia Volpi and his daughters; Pietro Tozzi, New York, sold; [to Brummer Gallery, New York, sold]*; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, February 1929, for $24,000; bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1943. *The provenance until this point is summarized in a letter from Pietro Tozzi to Grenville Winthrop dated April 27, 1941.
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