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27. Sigismondo Coccapani: The Flute Player. Formerly Florence, Galleria Corsini degrees by Caravaggism. As noted above, Gregori (1959), Borea (1970), and Cantelli (1983) confirmed Longhi's 1943 attribution to Coccapani, who effectively has served as a surrogate attribution for a picture deemed close to Fetti but not by him. However, the recent researches of Contini and Acanfora,

16 among others, have significantly reduced the number of works firmly attributable to Coccapani, with the re-attribution especially to Alessandro Rosi (e.g. the Magdalen, Florence, Depositi delle Gallerie Fiorentine), as well as Luciano Borzone, of a significant portion of the corpus. The paintings that still might be attributed to the artist (perhaps most famously The Flute Player (fig. 27), formerly in the Galleria Corsini, but even that picture attributed 16 The re-attributions and their implications are well summarised in Contini, R., Sulle spartizioni del Coccapani: Alessandro Rosi e Luciano Borzone, Paradigma 9 (1990) 141-158. Also see Acanfora, E., Sigismondo Coccapani, disegnatore e trattatista, Paragone Ml (1989) 71-108, and id., Alessandro Rosi, Florence 1994.