Pietro Dandini

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Acquired by the present owner by 1997.

Turin, Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, Il male: Esercizi di pittura crudele, 26 February – 26 June 2005, no. 83.

S. Bellesi, Diavolerie, magie e incantesimi nella pittura barocca Fiorentina, Florence 1997, pp. 65–9, no. 5, reproduced in colour;
P. Morel, 'La figure de la magicienne de l’Orlando Furioso à l’art florentin entre Cinquecento et Seicento', in L’arme e gli amori: Ariosto, Tasso and Guarini in late Renaissance Florence, Florence 2004, vol. II, pp. 323–24, fig. 10, reproduced;
V. Sgarbi in Il male: Esercizi di pittura crudele, V. Sgarbi (ed.), exh. cat., Turin 2005, p. 145, no. 83, reproduced in colour;
S. Bellesi, Catalogo dei pittori fiorentini del '600 e '700. Biografie e opere, Florence 2009, vol. I, p. 125, vol. II, p. 208, no. 440, reproduced;
A. Iafrate, '“Il demone nell’ampolla”: Solomon, Virgil, Aeolus, and the Long Metamorphosis of Rain Rituals and Wind-Taming Practices', in Revue de l'histoire des religions, 3, 2017, p. 393, fig. 3, reproduced.