A Gentleman

c. 1485/1490

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West Building Main Floor, Gallery 9

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    terracotta

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 57 x 63.8 x 27.9 cm (22 7/16 x 25 1/8 x 11 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.4.75

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ginori Palace, Florence; Princes of Liechtenstein, Vienna;[1] Clarence H. Mackay [1874-1938], Roslyn, New York, by 1926;[2] acquired from his estate in May 1939 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris), as by Benndetto da Maiano;[3] sold 1939 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1943 to NGA.
[1] The original Duveen prospectus, in NGA curatorial files, states that the bust was in the "Linori[sic] family of Florence in whose possession it has been from the time it was executed (about 1475) until the eighteenth century, when it was acqured by Prince Liechtenstein...in whose palace, in Vienna, it remained until it passed into the Mackay Collection."
[2] W.R.Valentiner, The Clarence H. Mackay Collection: Italian Schools, New York, 1926: no. 15.
[3] Duveen Brothers Records, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Acc. no. 960015, Series II.1 Collectors Files, Mackay, Clarence H. 9.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1925

  • Valentiner, Wilhelm R. "The Clarence H. Mackay Collection." Art in America 13, no. 9 (1925): 244-249, fig. 3.

1926

  • Valentiner, W.R. The Clarence H. Mackay Collection. New York, 1926: 6-9, no. 15, as by Benedetto da Maiano, repro.

1941

  • Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 219, no. A-50, as Bust of a Florentine Statesman by Benedetto da Maiano.

1942

  • Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 254, repro. 224, as Bust of a Florentine Statesman by Benedetto da Maiano.

1943

  • Swarzenski, Georg. "Some Aspects of Italian Quattrocento Sculpture in the National Gallery." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th series, 24 (November 1943): 295 fig. 10, 296-297.

1944

  • Duveen Brothers, Inc. Duveen Sculpture in Public Collections of America: A Catalog Raisonné with illustrations of Italian Renaissance Sculptures by the Great Masters which have passed through the House of Duveen. New York, 1944: figs. 161-162, as Florentine Statesman, by Benedetto da Maiano.

1945

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 187, repro., as A Florentine Statesman by Benedetto da Maiano.

1957

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): 31, fig. 14, as A Florentine Statesman by Benedetto da Maiano.

1959

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 405, repro., as Bust of a Florentine Statesman by Benedetto da Maiano.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 146, as Bust of a Florentine Statesman by Benedetto da Maiano.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 129, repro., as Bust of a Florentine Statesman by Benedetto da Maiano.

1976

  • Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 42.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 87, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q63809384

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