Lodovico Widmann
probably 1637
Artist, Venetian, 1586 - 1638
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 206.1 x 137.5 cm (81 1/8 x 54 1/8 in.)
framed: 232.4 x 164.1 cm (91 1/2 x 64 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1946.6.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Lodovico Widmann [1611-1674], Venice. Private collection, probably in Germany (as by Murillo); discovered 1922 by (August Mayer, Munich) and sold the same year to Samuel L. Fuller [1875-1963], New York (as by Tinelli);[1] gift 1946 to NGA.
[1] According to typed extracts (in NGA curatorial files) from a letter by August L. Mayer of the Alte Pinakothek to Samuel Fuller, probably written in February 1922. Mayer's authentication of the painting on the back of an old photograph (in NGA curatorial files) is dated Munich, 26 February 1922.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1984
Baroque Portraiture in Italy: Works from North American Collections, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 1984-1985, no. 73, 188, repro. (cat. by John Spike).
Bibliography
1924
Mayer, August. "Un ritratto sconosciuto di Tiberio Tinelli." Bollettino d'Arte 17 (1924): 470.
1929
Fiocco, Giuseppe. Venetian Painting of the Seicento and Settecento. Florence and Paris, 1929: 29.
1938
Moschetti, Andrea. "Three Portraits by Tiberio Tinelli." The Burlington Magazine 72 (1938): 69, fig. c.
1962
Pallucchini, Rodolfo. "Contributi alla pittura veneziana del settecento." Arte Veneta 16 (1962): 127-128, fig. 141.
1964
Ridolfi, Carlo. Le meraviglie dell'arte. Venice, 1656. Edited by Detlev von Hadeln. Rome, 1964: 2:280.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 127, as Count Lodovico Vidmano.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 114, repro., as Count Lodovico Vidmano.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Mass., 1972: 198.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 340, repro., as Count Lodovico Vidmano.
1979
Fletcher, Jennifer. "Marco Boschini and Paolo del Sera: Collectors and Connoisseurs of Venice." Apollo 110 (1979): 424, fig. 7.
Potterton, Homan. Venetian Seventeenth-Century Painting. Exh. cat. National Gallery, London, 1979: 26, fig. 14.
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:458-460; 2:pl. 328.
1980
Rösch-Widmann, Eva. I Widmann: le vicende di una famiglia veneziana dal cinquecento all' ottocento. Venice, 1980: 10, 25.
1981
Pallucchini, Rodolfo. La pittura veneziana del seicento. 2 vols. Milan, 1981: 1:107-108, 2:fig. 286-287.
1983
Levey, Santina. Lace. A History. London, 1983: 24, fig. 138.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 391, repro., as Count Lodovico Vidmano.
1989
Magani, Fabrizio. Il collezionismo e la commitenza artistica della famiglia Widmann, patrizi veneziani, dal Seicento all'Ottocento. Memorie dell’Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, vol. 41. Venice, 1989: 23-24.
Safarik, Eduard, and Gabriello Milantoni. "La pittura del seicento a Venezia." In La Pittura in Italia: Il Seicento. Milan, 1989: 163, fig. 211.
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: 318-321, color repro. 319.
Inscriptions
center left at top of bas relief: .TINELLI.
Wikidata ID
Q20177147