Portrait of a Young Woman
c. 1525
Artist, Florentine, 1475 - 1554


West Building Main Floor, Gallery 19
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 57.8 x 49.6 cm (22 3/4 x 19 1/2 in.)
framed: 85.7 x 77.5 x 7 cm (33 3/4 x 30 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1939.1.31
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Charles Fairfax Murray [1849-1919], London and Florence).[1] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Rome);[2] sold 1929 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] According to Kress records in NGA curatorial files. The painting was not included in sales from Fairfax Murray's estate held at Christie's, London, 30 January - 2 February 1920; Sotheby's, London, 10 May 1922; Cassirer & Helbing, Berlin, 6-7 November 1929; see also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1724.
[2] According to L. Venturi, Italian Paintings in America, New York, 1933, Vol. III, plate 451.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1933
Venturi, Lionello. Italian Paintings in America, 3 vols. New York, 1933: 3:pl. 451.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 30-31. no. 142.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 242, repro. 78.
1944
Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 41, repro.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 117, repro.
1957
Zeri, Federico. “La riapertura della Alte Pinakothek in Monaco.” Paragone 95 (1957): 68.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 77, repro.
1962
Cappi Bentivegna, Ferruccia. Abbigliamento e costuma nella pittura italiana rinascimentale. 2 vols. Rome, 1962-1964: 1(1962):218, fig. 303.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 21.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 14, repro.
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 122, fig. 296.
1970
Masetti, Anna Rosa “Per una Giuditta di Raffaello.” Critica d’arte 17 (1970): 73.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 37, 530, 645.
1973
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 392.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 50, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: 1:94; 2:pl. 63, 63A.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 182, no. 204, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 70, repro.
1987
Pagnotta, Laura. Giuliano Bugiardini. Turin, 1987: 63, 214-215, cat. 50, fig. 50.
1992
Pagnotta, Laura. “Due dipinti e un disegno di Giuliano Bugiardini.” Antichità Viva 31, no. 2 (1992): 11, fig. 2.
1993
Sricchia Santoro, Fiorella. “Del Franciabigio, dell’Indaco e di una vecchia questione. I.” Prospettiva 70 (April 1993): 49 n. 66.
2019
Gianeselli, Matteo. "Un Portrait de Giuliano Bugiardini ou les débuts de la toile dans le portrait florentin." Cahiers d'histoire de l'art (2019): 13, fig. 7.
2020
Zaninelli, Fulvia. "The Interesting Case of Alessandro Contini Bonacossi (1878-1955) and Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929)." In Florence, Berlin and Beyond. Late Nineteenth-Century Art Markets and Their Social Networks, ed. Lynn Catterson. Leiden, Boston, 2020: 295.
Wikidata ID
Q20175854