Giovanni Battista Benvenuti, called l’ortolano

oil on panel, lunette, 19.5 x 39.2 cm
bears a label with the inscription "66" on the back of the panel (formerly on the front)

Provenance
Malvasia Collection, Bologna;
Ginevra Vigo Dal Pozzo Malvasia Collection

Literature
G. FRABETTI, L’Ortolano, Milan 1966, pp. 20-21, cat. n. 6, p. 44, reproduced as fig. 25;
B. BERENSON, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places. Central Italian and North Italian School, London 1968, vol. I, p. 305;
V. ROMANI, in A. BALLARIN, Dosso Dossi. La pittura a Ferrara negli anni del ducato di Alfonso I, Cittadella (Padua) 1995, vol. 1, fig. 149, entry n. 229, p. 269.