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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 |
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Provenance
Ghizzi family, Naples; sold by 1821 to a Marquess of Lansdowne; Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, Bowood Hall, Wiltshire, England, by 1821; by inheritance to Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne [1816-1866], Bowood Hall; by inheritance to Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne [1845-1927], Bowood Hall, until at least 1914.[1] (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London); on joint account with (M. Knoedler & Company, New York) by whom sold 1953 to (Pinakos, Inc., New York); by whom sold 1955 with (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London) and (M. Knoedler & Company, New York) to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1961 to NGA.
[1]According to Mrs. Anna Jameson, Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London, 1844, p. 306-307. [2]Receipt dated 7 February 1955 from M. Knoedler & Co. in NGA curatorial records.
Associated Names
- Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
- Ghizzi
- Heinemann, Rudolf J.
- Knoedler & Company, M.
- Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
- Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, Henry
- Petty-FitzMaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne, Henry
- Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Henry Charles Keith
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