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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
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
On View
From the Tour: Raphael
Object 6 of 7

Provenance

Commissioned by the sitter, then by inheritance in the Altoviti family, Rome and later Florence; [1] sold November 1808 via Johann Metzger to Ludwig I, King of Bavaria [1786-1868]; presented to the Alte Pinakothek, Munich; traded September 1938 to (Thomas Agnew and Sons, London); sold October 1938 (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 1940 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1943 to NGA.

[1] The complete provenance of this painting is described in David Alan Brown and Jane Van Nimmen, Raphael & the Beautiful Banker, New Haven and London, 2005.

Regarding deaccessions from the Pinakothek, see also 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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