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Gaál, Balaton Földvár, Hungary, before 1906;[1] Dr. Ludwig Keleman, Budapest; sold 1929 by his widow to (Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., Paris and New York);[2] sold May 1950 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1952 to NGA.

[1] Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century, London, 1968: 25.

[2] The sale by Keleman's widow is confirmed by Alfred Frankfurter in his documentation of the painting for Germain Seligman in 1938, copy in NGA curatorial files.

[3] Germain Seligman proposed a sale to the Kress Foundation of five works of art, including Andrea Mantegna's "Portrait of Janus Pannonius," in a letter of 10 May 1950; the Foundation paid for them the following day (copy in NGA curatorial files).

Exhibition History

1939
Masterpieces of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300-1800, New York World's Fair, 1939, no. 233, as Portrait of Janus Pannonius (Presumed)
1941
Twenty-Second Loan Exhibition of Old Masters. Masterpieces of Art from European and American Collections, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1941, no. 39, as Portrait of Janus Pannonius (Presumed).
1949
Early European Paintings, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, 1949, no. 19, as Assumed Portrait of James Pannonius.
1979
Paintings of Italian Masters from the Collections of U.S.A. Museums, State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad; Pushkin Museum, Moscow; The Kiev Museum of Western and Eastern Art, 1979 (organized by the Armand Hammer Foundation, Los Angeles).
1992
Andrea Mantegna, Royal Academy of Arts, London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992, no. 99, repro. (shown only in New York).
2006
Mantegna a Mantova, 1460-1506, Fruttiere di Palazzo Te, Mantua, 2006-2007, no. 1, repro.

Bibliography

1951
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1945-1951. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 70, no. 24, repro.
1952
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Interpreting Masterpieces: Twenty-four Paintings from the Kress Collection." Art News Annual 16 (1952): 91-92, repro. 88
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 131, repro.
1961
Seligman, Germain. Merchants of Art: 1880-1960, Eighty Years of Professional Collecting. New York, 1961: repro. pl. 105.
1961
Seymour 1961 (Kress), 46-48, color repro.
1962
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., Treasures from the National Gallery of Art, New York, 1962: 22, color repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 82
1966
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:68-69, color repro.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 73, repro.
1968
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 24-25, fig. 67.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 214, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:297-298, II:pl. 211
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 114, no. 92, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 248, 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: 432-434, color repro.

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