Portrait of a Man, early 1520s

Provenance

Sir Thomas Sebright, Beechwood Park, England, by 1857;[1] Sir Giles Edward Sebright, 13th Bt., Beechwood Park, Hertfordshire, England; (Sebright sale, Christie's, London, 2 July 1937, no. 128, as Andrea del Sarto); purchased by Marshall.[2] (Eugenio Ventura, Rome, Italy). (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence and Rome); sold 1950 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1961 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1956

Mostra del Pontormo, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 1956, no. 161, repro.

1996

L'officina della maniera. Varietà e fierezza nell'arte fiorentina del Cinquecento fra le due repubbliche 1494-1530, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, 1996-1997, no. 133, repro.

2005

Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2005, no. 59, repro.

2014

Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino. Diverging Paths of Mannerism, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2014, no. IV.2.6, repro.

Bibliography

1951

Longhi, Roberto. "Review of Il Rosso Fiorentino by Paola Barocchi." Paragone 13 (1951): 62, repro.

1951

Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1945-1951. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 130, no. 55, repro.

1953

Briganti, Guilano. "Una Madonna del Rosso." Paragone 43 (1953):51

1959

Keutner, Herbert. "Zu einigen Bildnissen des Frühen Florentiner Manierismus." Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 8, no. 3 (January 1959):139+, repro.

1959

Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 106, repro.

1961

Walker, John, Guy Emerson, and Charles Seymour. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 108, color repro. pl. 99.

1963

Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Florentine School. 2 vols. London, 1963: 1:195, as by Rosso Fiorentino (?).

1963

Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 307, repro.

1965

Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 116.

1968

National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 104, repro.

1973

Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 9-10, fig. 15.

1975

European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 310, repro.

1979

Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:410-411; 2:pl. 290.

1984

Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 182, no. 203, color repro.

1985

European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 356, repro.

1994

Costamagna, Philippe. Pontormo. Milan, 1994: 72, 107, 120, 317.

1996

Béguin, Sylvie. “Pontormo et Rosso.” In Roberto P. Ciardi and Antonio Natali, eds. Pontormo e Rosso: Atti del convegno di Empoli e Volterra. Progetto Appiani di Piombino. Venice, 1996: 92-93, figs. 100-101.

2004

Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 98-99, no. 73, color repro.

2015

Avrillier, Sigrid. Un portrait de Pontormo peintre florentin du XVIe siècle. Paris, 2015: 15, fig. 6.

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