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Otto Mündler [1811-1870], Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, possibly 27 November 1871, no. 48, or 30 November 1871, no. 52);[1] Gustave Dreyfus [1937-1914], Paris; his heirs; sold 1930 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York);[2] sold March 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1939 to NGA.

[1] The item in question is listed, without measurements, as "Petit portrait d'homme vue en buste" and attributed to Morone in the catalogue of 27 November and as "Petit portrait d'homme" by an unknown artist in the catalogue of 30 November.

[2] See Die Sammlung..., 1930: 448; Frank Rutter, "Notes from Abroad," International Studio 96 (August 1930): 65; Frank Rutter, "Notes from Abroad. The Dreyfus Collection--Other Notes," International Studio 97 (September 1930): 60-62; as well as Carlyle Burrows, "Letter from New York," Apollo 13 (1931): 110-111.

[3] The Duveen Brothers letter confirming the sale of twenty-four paintings, including NGA 1939.1.263, is dated 9 March 1937; the provenance is given as "Dreyfus Collection" (copy in NGA curatorial files; reel 329, box 474, folder 5, Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles).

Exhibition History

1940
Italian Renaissance Portraits, M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1940, no. 2, repro.
1991
Le Muse e il Principe. Arte de corte nel Rinascimento padano, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, 1991, no. 57, fig. 172, as Profilo di fanciullo by Francesco del Cossa.

Bibliography

1941
Duveen 1941, fig. 59.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 22, as by Jacopo Bellini.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 247, repro. 71, as by Jacopo Bellini.
1944
Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: repro.,as by Jacopo Bellini.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 83, repro., as Portrait of a Boy by Jacopo Bellini.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 130, repro., as by Jacopo Bellini.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 13
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 5, repro.
1968
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 29-30, fig. 92.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 24, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:87-88, II:pl. 58, as by Francesco Botticini.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 43, repro.
2003
Boskovits, Miklós, and David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003: 226-229, color repro., as Attributed to Francesco del Cossa.

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