Portrait of a Young Man

c. 1505

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 12

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on panel

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (maximum height and width): 28.1 x 23.3 cm (11 1/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
    overall (minimum height and width): 27.9 x 23 cm (11 x 9 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.96

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Anonymous collection or dealer, Cremona, Italy; sold c. 1875 to Sir John Charles Robinson, London and Newton Manor, Dorset. Thomas Humphry Ward [d. 1926], London; sold 1900 to (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London); sold 1900 to Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from the Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park; gift 1942 to NGA.

Associated Names

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.

1923

  • Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1923: unpaginated, repro.

1931

  • Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1931: 140, repro.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 7.

1948

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 12, repro.

1963

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 303, repro.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 135.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 121, repro.

1972

  • Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 30, 646, as by Boccaccio Boccaccino (?).

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 360, repro.

1979

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:24-25; 2:pl. 15, as Self-Portrait(?) by Jacopo de' Barbari.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 112, no. 90, color repro., as by Venetian School

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 419, repro.

2002

  • Quodbach, Esmée. "The Last of the American Versailles: The Widener Collection at Lynnewood Hall." Simiolus 29, no. 1/2 (2002): 94.

Wikidata ID

Q20175004

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