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Giorgione and Titian
Giorgione
Venetian, 1477/1478 - 1510
Titian
Venetian, c. 1490 - 1576
Portrait of a Venetian Gentleman, c. 1510
oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1939.1.258
From the Tour: Giorgione and the High Renaissance in Venice
Object 4 of 7


Literature

  • Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 79-80, 198.
  • Duveen 1941, fig. 153, as by Titian.
  • Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 247, repro. 114.
  • Franfurter 1944, 47, repro.
  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 100, repro.
  • Einstein, Lewis. Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1951: 88-89, repro.
  • Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Great Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1952: 58, color repro.
  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: 26, repro.
  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 157, repro.
  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 307, repro.
  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 58
  • Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:162, color repro.
  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 178-179, fig. 426.
  • European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 50, repro.
  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 154, repro.
  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:213-216, II:pl. 146, as Attributed to Giorgione and Titian.
  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 199, no. 238, color repro.
  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 176, repro.
  • Tiziano [NGA title: Titian: Prince of Painters] Exh. cat. Palazzo Ducale, Venice; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990-1991, p. 73-74, repro.
  • Steinberg, Arthur. "Blurred Boundaries, Opulent Nature, and Sensuous Flesh: Changing Technological Styles in Venetian Painting, 1480-1520." Studies in the History of Art 45 (1993): 215.
  • Freedberg, S. J. "The Attribution of the Allendale Nativity." Studies in the History of Art 45 (1993): 69, repro. no. 31.

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