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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of Portrait of a Humanist
Sebastiano del Piombo (artist)
Italian, 1485 - 1547
Portrait of a Humanist, c. 1520
oil on panel transferred to hardboard
Overall: 134.7 x 101 x 3.5 cm (53 1/16 x 39 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.) framed: 171.8 x 139.4 x 10.2 cm (67 5/8 x 54 7/8 x 4 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1961.9.38
On View
From the Tour: Venice and the North
Object 4 of 6
1956Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Colllection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 166, no. 65, repro.
1959Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 164, repro.
1961Seymour, Charles. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 119, repro. pl 109, color repro. pl. 110
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 308, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 122
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:188, color repro.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 108, repro.
1968Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 167, fig. 398.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 324, repro.
1979Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:424-425, II:pl. 303
1981Hirst, Michael. Sebastiano del Piombo. Oxford, 1991: 79, 101-102, repro.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 206, no. 251, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 371, repro.

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