Giovanni Emo
c. 1475/1480
Painter, Venetian, c. 1430/1435 - 1516
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 12
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on panel transferred to canvas mounted on panel
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
painted surface: 46.9 x 32.6 cm (18 7/16 x 12 13/16 in.)
overall size: 48.9 x 34.6 cm (19 1/4 x 13 5/8 in.)
framed: 67.3 x 54 x 6.7 cm (26 1/2 x 21 1/4 x 2 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1939.1.224
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dr. Pellegrini, Venice; sold 1786 to Sir Abraham Hume [1749-1838], Wormley Bury, Hertfordshire;[1] by inheritance to his grandson, John Hume Cust, 2nd viscount Alford [1812-1851], Ashridge Park, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, and Belton House, Grantham, Lincolnshire [painting at Ashridge Park];[2] by inheritance to his son, John William Spencer Brownlow Egerton-Cust, 2nd earl Brownlow [1842-1867], Ashridge Park; by inheritance to his brother, Adelbert Wellington Brownlow Cust, 3rd earl Brownlow [1844-1921], Ashridge Park; his estate; (Brownlow sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 4 and 7 May 1923, 1st day, no. 12); purchased by Vickers for (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold May 1936 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] A Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Pictures...Belonging to [Sir Abraham Hume], London, 1824: no. 2, as The Portrait of Bartolomeo Cogliani or Coleoni.
[2] On 24 July 1810, John Cust, 1st viscount Alford, 2nd baron and 1st earl Brownlow [1779-1853], married Sophia, the second daughter and co-heir of Sir Abraham Hume; she died in 1814 and was the first of his three wives. Their first child was John Hume Cust, who died two years before his father and so never succeeded to the earldom. (See The Dictionary of National Biography 10: 208-209, and Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 1956: 302-303.)
[3] The Duveen Brothers letter confirming the sale of thirteen paintings and one sculpture, including NGA 1939.1.224, is dated 18 May 1936; the provenance is given as "Coll'n. of late Third Earl Brownlow" (copy in NGA curatorial files; Box 474, Folder 5, Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles). See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/931.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1912
Early Venetian Pictures and Other Works of Art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1912, no. 27 (no. 68, pl. XLVIII in illustrated catalogue), as Portrait of a Man.
1927
Fifth Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1927, no. 3, as Portrait of the Condottiere Bartolommeo Colleoni.
1933
Sixteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters. Italian Paintings of the XIV to XVI Century, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1933, no. 95, repro., as Portrait of Bartolommeo Colleoni.
1935
Fifteenth Century Portraits, M. Knoedler and Company, New York, 1935, no. 8, repro., as Portrait of Bartolommeo Colleoni.
1938
Venetian Paintings of the 15th & 16th Centuries, M. Knoedler and Company, New York, 1938, no. 3, repro., as Portrait of Condottiere Bartolommeo Colleoni.
1940
Italian Renaissance Portraits, M. Knoedler and Company, New York, 1940, no. 5, repro., as Bartolommeo Colleoni.
Bibliography
1941
Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 87, repro., as Portrait of Bartolommeo Colleoni [Presumed].
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 20-21, no. 335, pl. II, as Portrait of a Condottiere.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 246, repro. 69, as Portrait of a Condottiere.
1944
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 60, color repro., as Portrait of a Condottiere.
Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 46, repro., as Portrait of a Condottiere.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 91, repro., as Portrait of a Condottiere.
1951
Einstein, Lewis. Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1951: 74-78, repro., as Portrait of a Condottiere.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 140, repro., as Portrait of a Condottiere.
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Early Italian Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1959 (Booklet Number Three in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 40, color repro., as Portrait of a Condottiere.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 92, repro., as Portrait of a Condottiere.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 11, as Portrait of a Condottiere.
1966
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:152, color repro., as Portrait of a Condottiere.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 4, repro., as Portrait of a Condottiere.
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 40-41, fig. 95.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 23, 645.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 20, repro., as Portrait of a Condottiere.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:36-38; 2:pl. 24, as Portrait of a Condottiere.
1980
Schulz, Anne Markham. "A Portrait of Giovanni Emo in the National Gallery of Art." Studies in the History of Art 9 (1980): 7-11, fig. 1, 2.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 110, no. 84, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 40, repro.
2003
Boskovits, Miklós, and David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003: 75-79, color repro.
2008
Lucco, Mauro, and Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa, eds. Giovanni Bellini. Exh. cat. Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2008: 35, 82 fig. 7.
2013
Walmsley, Elizabeth. "Italian Renaissance Paintings Restored in Paris by Duveen Brothers, Inc., c. 1927-1929." Facture: conservation, science, art history 1 (2013): 58-77, fig. 13.
2019
Lucco, Mauro, Peter Humfrey, and Giovanni C.F. Villa. Giovanni Bellini: Catalogo ragionato. Treviso, 2019: 517-519, cat. 148.
Wikidata ID
Q3937676