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image of Bindo Altoviti
Raphael (artist)
Italian, 1483 - 1520
Bindo Altoviti, c. 1515
oil on panel
Overall: 59.7 x 43.8 cm (23 1/2 x 17 1/4 in.) framed: 86.2 x 70.8 x 8.4 cm (33 15/16 x 27 7/8 x 3 5/16 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1943.4.33
From the Tour: Raphael
Object 6 of 7

Provenance

Commissioned by the sitter, then by inheritance in the Altoviti family, Rome and later Florence; sold 1808 to Johann Georg von Dillis [1759-1841] for Ludwig I, King of Bavaria [1786-1868];[1] presented to the Alte Pinakothek, Munich;[2] traded in the late 1930s to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris);[3] sold 1940 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1943 to NGA.

[1] According to J.D. Passavant, Raphael d'Urbin, 1860: 2:117.

[2] According to F. von Reber, Katalog der Gemälde-Sammlung der Kgl. Älteren Pinakothek in Munchen, 1908: 225.

[3] Regarding deaccessions from the Pinkothek, see Jonathan Petropoulos, The Faustian Bargain, Oxford, 2000: 31+. The painting is listed in the General Stock Book of Duveen Brothers that covers the period 1 June 1937 to April 1941 (copy in NGA curatorial files; Duveen Brothers Records, Accession No. 960015, Getty Research Institute, Reel 66, Box 186).

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