National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: Bindo Altoviti
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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 (Thos. Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London);[2] sold October 1938 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] 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.

[2] Regarding deaccessions from the Pinakothek, see also Jonathan Petropoulos, The Faustian Bargain, Oxford, 2000: 31+.

[3] 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, Los Angeles, Reel 66, Box 186).

Exhibition History

1983
Raphael and America, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1983, no. 98, repro.
2003
Raphael, Cellini & A Renaissance Banker: The Patronage of Bindo Altoviti, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, 2003-2004, no. 8, fig. 35, frontispiece.
2009
From Raphael to the Carracci: the Art of Papal Rome, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2009, no. 11, repro.

Bibliography

1941
Duveen 1941, fig. 136-137.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 163.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 250, repro. 175.
1944
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 50, color repro.
1944
Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 37, repro.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 116, repro.
1956
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: 20, repro.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 98, repro.
1961
Seymour 1961 (Kress), 107, repro. 97, color pl. 98
1962
Neugass, Fritz. "Die Auflösung der Sammlung Kress." Die Weltkunst 32 (1 January, 1962): 4.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 306, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 107
1966
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:132, color repro.
1968
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 105-106, fig. 255-256.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 280, repro.
1976
Alsop, Joseph. The Rare Art Traditions: The History of Art Collecting and Its Linked Phenomena Wherever These Have Appeared. Bollingen series 35, no. 27. New York, 1976: 452.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:394-396, II:pl. 280
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 180, no. 200, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 326, repro.
1990
Campbell, Lorne. Renaissance Portraits: European Portrait-Painting in the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries. New Haven, 1990: 101, fig. 118.
2005
Brown, David Alan and Jane Van Nimmen. Raphael & the Beautiful Banker: The Story of the Bindo Altoviti Portrait. New Haven and London, 2005.

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