Portrait of a Young Man

after 1720

Giuseppe Ghislandi

Painter, Italian, 1655 - 1743

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 73 x 56.5 cm (28 3/4 x 22 1/4 in.)
    framed: 98 x 82.1 x 7.6 cm (38 9/16 x 32 5/16 x 3 in.)

  • Accession

    1939.1.102

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Barberini Collection, Rome.[1] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Rome), by 1929.[2] purchased 1932 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] According to National Gallery of Art, Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, Washington, D.C., 1941: 77.
[2] According to Il settecento italiano, Exh. cat., Palazzo della Biennale, Venice, 1929: 48.
[3] According to a typed notation in the Kress records, NGA curatorial files, and An Exhibition of Italian Paintings Lent by Mr. Samuel H. Kress of New York to Museums, Colleges and Art Galleries, 1st catalogue, 1932-1933; 2nd expanded catalogue, 1933-1935; see also The Kress Collection Digital Archives, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1717.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1929

  • Il Settecento Italiano, Palazzo della Biennale, Venice, no. 28.

1932

  • An Exhibition of Italian Paintings Lent by Mr. Samuel H. Kress of New York to Museums, Colleges, and Art Associations, travelling exhibition, 24 venues, 1932-1935, mostly unnumbered catalogues, p. 33 and p. 37, repro., as by Vittore Ghislandi.

1938

  • Special Exhibition of Venetian Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. Seattle Art Museum; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, August-October 1938, no catalogue.

  • Exhibition of Venetian Paintings from the Fifteenth Century through the Eighteenth Century, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1938, no. 27, repro.

  • Tiepolo and His Contemporaries, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1938, no. 1, repro.

1939

  • Masterpieces of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300-1800, New York World's Fair, 1939, no. 143.

Bibliography

1941

  • Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 76-77, no. 213.

1942

  • Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 243, repro. 11

1959

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 228, repro.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 58.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 50, repro.

1972

  • Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Mass., 1972: 84.

1973

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 106, fig. 198.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 152, repro.

1979

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: 1:206; 2:pl. 142, 142A.

1982

  • Gozzoli, Maria Cristina. "Vittore Ghislandi detto Fra' Galgario." In I pittori bergamaschi 5, I (1982): 127, no. 173, 173, fig. 6.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 174, repro.

1996

  • De Grazia, Diane, and Eric Garberson, with Edgar Peters Bowron, Peter M. Lukehart, and Mitchell Merling. Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 113-116, repro. 114.

Wikidata ID

Q20177803

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