A Lady of the Zorzi Family, 1570/1580

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 14

Medium

terracotta

Dimensions

overall: 81 x 59 x 33.1 cm (31 7/8 x 23 1/4 x 13 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1961.9.107

Artists / Makers

Alessandro Vittoria (artist) Venetian, 1525 - 1608

Image Use

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Inscription

on truncation of arm, proper left: .ALEXAN.VICTORIA.F.

Provenance

Palazzo Carregiani (formerly Zorzi), Ponte dei Greci, Rio di San Lorenzo, Venice. Art Market. Acquired 1865 by the Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie, Vienna (inv. no. 2408);[1] Acquired by Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (inv. no. 9907) in February 1940; Acquired 1954 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1961 to NGA.[3]

[1] A letter dated 21 October 1953 from Dr. Ernst H. Buschbeck states that the work came to the museum directly from the Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie.

[2] Letter (cited in footnote 1) states that Kress bought directly from the Kunsthistorische Museum, Vienna.

[3] Provenance according to Ulrich Middeldorf, Complete Catalogue of the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Sculptures XIV-XIX Century, 1976, p. 76.

Associated Names

Art market
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
Palazzo Carregiani
Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie

Bibliography

1907: Thieme, Ulrich, and Felix Becker, eds. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. 37 vols. Leipzig, 1907-1950: 36(1947):439, s.v. "Vittoria."

1956: Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection 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: 266, 268, no. 113, repro. 269, as Portrait of a Venetian Lady.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 432, repro., as Portrait of a Venetian Lady.

1965: Schwarz, Heinrich. "Palma Giovane and his Family: Observations on Some Portrait Drawings." Master Drawings 3, n. 2 (October 1965): 158-165, fig. 2.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 174, as Andriana Palma, Wife of Palma Giovane.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 153, repro., as Andriana Palma, Wife of Palma Giovane.

1971: Schwarz, Heinrich. "Portrait Drawings of Palma Giovane and His Family: A Postscript." In Studi di Storia dell'Arte in Onore di Antonio Morassi. Venice, 1971: 210-213, fig. 4.

1976: Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 76.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 234, repro.

1997: Lewis, Douglas, with the assistance of David Favale. “An Early Series of Dynastic Portrait Busts by Alessandro Vittoria.” Artibus et historiae 35 (1997): 113-134, repro. figs. 6,7.

1998: Martin, Thomas. Alessandro Vittoria and the portrait bust in Renaissance Venice: remodeling antiquity. Oxford and New York, 1998: 84, 127-8, 129, 163, repros 152, 153, as closer to Aspetti.

2008: Penny, Nicholas. "The Evolution of the Plinth, Pedestal, and Socle." In Collecting Sculpture in Early Modern Europe. Nicholas Penny and Eike D. Schmidt, eds. Studies in the History of Art 70, Symposium Papers 47 (2008): 468, 470, fig. 16.