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North Italian 15th Century

Portrait of a Man, c. 1475/1500

West Building, Main Floor - Gallery 27

Medium

tempera on poplar panel

Dimensions

overall: 37 x 27 cm (14 9/16 x 10 5/8 in.)

framed: 63.5 x 52.7 x 7.5 cm (25 x 20 3/4 x 2 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1939.1.357

Artists / Makers

North Italian 15th Century (painter)

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Provenance

(Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin), by 1929;[1] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York), by 1933; sold March 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1939 to NGA.

[1] Adolfo Venturi, "Un ritratto di Cosmè Tura," L'arte 33 [New Series vol. 1] (May 1930): 283-284.

[2] Duveen Brothers lent the painting to the 1933 exhibition in Ferrara. Their letter confirming the sale of twenty-four paintings to the Kress Foundation, including NGA 1939.1.357, is dated 9 March 1937; the provenance is given as "Collection Matthiesen Gallery" (copy in NGA curatorial files; Box 474, Folder 5, Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles). See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1690.

Associated Names

Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
The Matthiesen Gallery

Exhibition History

1933: Esposizione della Pittura Ferrarese del Rinascimento, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Ferrara, 1933, no. 62, as by Cosmé Tura.

2002: Cosmè Tura: Painting and Design in Renaissance Ferrara, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2002, no. 16, repro., as by Follower of Cosmè Tura.

Bibliography

1941: Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 62, repro., as by Cosimo Tura.

1941: Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 199, no. 450, as by Cosimo Tura.

1942: Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 248, repro. 200, as by Cosimo Tura.

1945: Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 73, repro., as by Cosimo Tura.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 121, repro., as by Cosimo Tura.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 132.

1966: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 82-83, fig. 230.

1968: Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:433, as by Cosme Tura.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 119, repro.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 352, repro.

1979: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:511-512; 2:pl. 358.

1980: Ragghianti, Carlo L. “Galleria di Washington.” Critica d’Arte 45, nos. 154-156 (1980): 219-220, as by Marco Zoppo.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 403, repro.

1997: Campbell, Stephen J. Cosme Tura of Ferrara: Style, Politics and the Renaissance City, 1450-1495. New Haven, 1997: 24-26, repro. no. 16.

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: 544-547, color repro.