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across bottom reverse: Lionardo G[inori]

Provenance

(Leo Nardus [1868-1955], Suresnes, France, and New York); sold 1905 to Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, as by Raphael;[1] inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park; gift 1942 to NGA.

Bibliography

1916
Berenson, Bernard, and William Roberts. Pictures in the Collection of P.A.B. Widener at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: Early Italian and Spanish Schools. Philadelphia, 1916: unpaginated, repro., as Portrait Bust of Baldassare Castiglione by Unknown Italian Master.
1923
Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1923: unpaginated, repro., as Portrait Bust of Baldassare Castiglione by Unknown Italian Master.
1924
Fischel, Oskar. Tizian: Des Meisters Gemälde. 5th ed. Stuttgart, 1924: 308, as Baldassarre Castiglione, by a North Italian artist close to Vincenzo Catena.
1931
Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1931: 158, repro., as Portrait Bust of Baldassare Castiglione by Unknown Italian Master.
1933
Venturi, Lionello. Italian Paintings in America, 3 vols. New York, 1933: 3:pl. 450, as Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione.
1936
Berenson, Bernard. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936: 120, as Baldassarre Castiglione, by Vincenzo Catena (?).
1937
Gronau, Georg. "Some Portraits by Titian and Raphael." Art in America 25, no. 3 (1937): 103 n. 14, as not by Vincenzo Catena.
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 5, as Italian Master, Baldassare Castiglione.
1948
Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 17, repro., as Italian Master, Baldassare Castiglione.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 70, as Italian School, Baldassare Castiglione.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 62, repro., as Italian School, Baldassare Castiglione.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 172, 511, as Follower of Raphael.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 180, repro., as Italian School, Baldassare Castiglione.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:94-96; 2:pl. 64, 64A, as Portrait of a Gentleman.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 172, no. 194, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 71, repro., as Portrait of a Man
1986
Ginori Lisci, Leonardo. “Ho ritrovato uno dei miei antenati alla National Gallery di Washington.” La Nazione (7 January 1986): 3.
1987
Pagnotta, Laura. Giuliano Bugiardini. Turin, 1987: 58, 217, cat. 39, fig. 39.
1992
Pagnotta, Laura. “Due dipinti e un disegno di Giuliano Bugiardini.” Antichità Viva 31, no. 2 (1992): 11.
1993
Ferrazza, Roberta. Palazzo Davanzati e le collezioni di Elia Volpi. Florence, 1993: 94, 97 fig. 89, 137 n. 61.
2002
Quodbach, Esmée. "The Last of the American Versailles: The Widener Collection at Lynnewood Hall." Simiolus 29, no. 1/2 (2002): 95.
2016
Bayer, Andrea. "Giuliano Bugiardini: A Master of Theme and Variation." In James Clifton, ed. A Golden Age of European Art: Celebrating Fifty Years of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation. Houston, 2016: 71.
2017
Schumacher, Andreas, ed. Florentiner Malerei. Alte Pinakothek: Die Gemälde des 14. bis 16. Jahrhunderts. Munich, 2017: 563, fig. 41.2.
2021
Quodbach, Esmée. "A forgotten episode from America's history of collecting: the rise and fall of art dealer Leo Nardus, 1894-1908." Simiolus 43, no. 4 (2021): 353-375, esp. 358, 360 fig. 8, 373.

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