Man Seated in Profile to Right

The drawing is a study for one of the Florentine patricians seated in the left foreground of the Harangue of Antonio Giacomini on the ceiling of the Sala Grande of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, painted by Vasari ca. 1563-66. The scene represents Giacomini exhorting the Florentines to declare war against Pisa. An early design by Vasari for the octagonal painting and its adjoining panels is also in the Morgan Library.¹ Further studies related to the composition, attributed to the Vasari workshop, include a study in red chalk in the J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky,² for the eight priors seated at upper left in the painting and a design in the Fondazione Horne.³

Footnotes:

1. Morgan Library & Museum, New York, inv. 1984.60.
2. J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, inv. 67.1. See Thiem 1968, 148-149 (as Vasari workshop); Pillsbury 1976, 135-136 (as a possible copy after Vasari); Allegri and Cecchi 1980, 253, no. 28c (as Vasari); Hӓrb 2015, 450-51, no. 289 (as Vasari).
3. Museo Horne, Florence, inv. 5610. See Thiem 1968, 146-147 (as a workshop copy after Vasari); Pillsbury 1976, 132-133 (as Stradanus); Allegri and Cecchi 1980, 253. no. 28a (as Stradanus); Florence 2000, 48, no. 16 (as Stradanus); Hӓrb 2015, 451 (as Stradanus).