Profile Portrait of a Boy
c. 1460/1470
Painter
Artwork overview
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Medium
tempera and oil on panel
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 25.1 x 17.8 cm (9 7/8 x 7 in.)
framed: 48.6 x 37.5 cm (19 1/8 x 14 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1939.1.263
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Otto Mündler [1811-1870], Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, possibly 27 November 1871, no. 48, or 30 November 1871, no. 52);[1] Gustave Dreyfus [1937-1914], Paris; his heirs; purchased 1930 with the entire Dreyfus collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York);[2] sold March 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] The item in question is listed, without measurements, as "Petit portrait d'homme vue en buste" and attributed to Morone in the catalogue of 27 November and as "Petit portrait d'homme" by an unknown artist in the catalogue of 30 November.
[2] See Die Sammlung..., 1930: 448; Frank Rutter, "Notes from Abroad," International Studio 96 (August 1930): 65; Frank Rutter, "Notes from Abroad. The Dreyfus Collection--Other Notes," International Studio 97 (September 1930): 60-62; as well as Carlyle Burrows, "Letter from New York," Apollo 13 (1931): 110-111.
[3] The Duveen Brothers letter confirming the sale of twenty-four paintings, including NGA 1939.1.263, is dated 9 March 1937; the provenance is given as "Dreyfus Collection" (copy in NGA curatorial files; reel 329, 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/1737.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1940
Italian Renaissance Portraits, M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1940, no. 2, repro.
1991
Le Muse e il Principe. Arte de corte nel Rinascimento padano, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, 1991, no. 57, fig. 172, as Profilo di fanciullo by Francesco del Cossa.
Bibliography
1905
Reinach, Salomon. Répertoire de peintures du moyen âge et de la Renaissance (1280-1580). 6 vols. Paris, 1905-1923: 3(1910):106, as by Jacopo Bellini.
1906
Reinach, Salomon. Tableaux inedits ou peu connus tires de collections francaises. Paris, 1906: 47, pl. 17, as by Lorenzo di Credi.
1907
Berenson, Bernard. North Italian Painters of the Renaissance. New York and London, 1907: 171, as by Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio.
1908
Guiffrey, Jean. “La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus. II. La peinture.” Les Artes, no. 73 (January 1908): 14, 15, repro., as by Alvise Vivarini.
1910
Phillips, Claude. “An Unrecognized Portrait by Jacopo Bellini.” The Burlington Magazine 16 (1910): 200-207, repro., as by Jacopo Bellini.
Cagnola, Guido. “Un’interessante acquista della Fondazione ARtistica Poldi Poezzoli.” Rassegna d’Arte 10 (1910): 65, as by Jacopo Bellini.
1912
Crowe, Joseph Archer, and Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle. A History of Painting in North Italy. Ed. Tancred Borenius. 3 vols. London, 1912: 1:116 n. 2, as by Jacopo Bellini.
1915
Testi, Laudedeo. La storia della pittura veneziana. 2. Il devenire. Bergamo, 1915: 280, as not by Jacopo Bellini.
1916
Fiocco, Giuseppe. “I pittori da Santacroce.” L’Arte 19 (1916): 187, as by Girolamo da Santacroce.
1923
Marle, Raimond van. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. 19 vols. The Hague, 1923-1938: 13(1931):315 n. 3, as not by Lorenzo di Credi; 17(1935):121-122, 123, repro., as by Jacopo Bellini.
1930
Rutter, Frank. “Notes from Abroad. The Dreyfus Collection—Other Notes.” International Studio 97 (September 1930): 62, 63, repro., as by Jacopo Bellini.
Venturi, Lionello. “Contributi a Jacopo Bellini.” L’Arte 33 (1930): 186, 189, fig. 9, as by Jacopo Bellini.
1933
Venturi, Lionello. Italian Paintings in America. 3 vols. New York and Milan, 1933: 2:pl. 334, as by Jacopo Bellini.
1940
Frankfurter, Alfred M. “Great Renaissance Portraits: A Unique Exhibition of Twenty-Five Italian Masterpieces at Knoedler’s.” Art News 39, no. 6 (16 March 1940): 7-9, repro., as by Jacopo Bellini.
1941
Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 59, repro., as by Jacopo Bellini.
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 22, no. 374, as by Jacopo Bellini.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 247, repro. 71, as by Jacopo Bellini.
1944
Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: repro., as by Jacopo Bellini.
Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries. New York, 1944: 111, as by Jacopo Bellini.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 83, repro., as Portrait of a Boy by Jacopo Bellini.
Grassi, Luigi. “Museo Nazionale di Washington.” Arti figurative 1, nos. 1-2 (1945): 234, as "by a Ferrarese master close to [Francesco del] Cossa."
1957
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School. 2 vols. London, 1957: 1:39, as by Jacopo Bellini.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 130, repro., as by Jacopo Bellini.
Röthlisberger, Marcel. “Studi su Jacopo Bellini.” Saggi e memorie di storia dell’arte 2 (1958-1959): 43, 78, as by Jacopo Bellini.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 13.
Schmitt, Ursula Barbara. "Jacopo Bellini." In Dizionario biografico degli italiani. Alberto Maria Ghisalberti. 56+ vols. Rome, 1960-: 7(1965):610-611, as by Jacopo Bellini.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 5, repro.
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 29-30, fig. 92, as Attributed to Jacopo Bellini.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Mass., 1972: xxii, 35, 646, as by Francesco Botticini in the opinion of Zeri (following Roberto Longhi), but by Venetian School in the opinion of Fredericksen.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 24, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:87-88; 2:pl. 58, as by Francesco Botticini.
1980
Ragghianti, Carlo L. “Galleria di Washington.” Critica d’Arte 45, nos. 154-156 (1980): 218, as Close to Jacopo Bellini.
1982
Sutton, Denys. “Sir Claude Phillips: First Keeper of the Wallace Collection.” Apollo 116, no. 249 (November 1982): 325, as by Francesco Botticini.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 43, repro.
1986
Bacchi, Andrea. “Tre artisti nella Bologna dei Bentivoglio: Appunti su una mostra.” Arte Cristiana 74, no. 715 (July – August 1986): 284, fig. 2, as by Francesco del Cossa (?).
1989
Eisler, Colin. The Genius of Jacopo Bellini: The Complete Painting and Drawings. New York, 1989: 529, as not by Jacopo Bellini.
1991
Heinemann, Fritz. Giovanni Bellini e i Belliniani, Vol. III. Supplemento e Ampliamenti. Hildesheim, 1991: 89, as by Girolamo Mocetto.
Bacchi, Andrea. Francesco del Cossa. Soncino, 1991: 26, 27, repro., as by Francesco del Cossa.
Molfino, Alessandra Mottola, and Mauro Natale, eds. Le Muse e il Principe: Arte di corte nel Rinascimento Padano. 2 vols. Exh. cat. Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, 1991: 1:216, as by Francesco del Cossa.
1993
Gagliardi, Jacques. La conquête de la peinture: L’Europe des ateliers du XIIIe au XVe siècle. Paris, 1993: 488, as by Francesco del Cossa.
1994
Venturini, Lisa. Francesco Botticini. Florence, 1994: 21 n. 64, as probably by an Emilian painter.
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: 226-229, color repro., as Attributed to Francesco del Cossa.
Sgarbi, Vittorio. Francesco del Cossa. Milan, 2003: 49 repro., 80, 223, cat. 2, as by Francesco del Cossa.
2006
Fahy, Everett. "Early Italian paintings in Washington and Philadelphia." The Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1241 (August 2006): 539, calls the designation "Attributed to Francesco del Cossa" preferrable to "North Italian Fifteenth Century."
Wikidata ID
Q20173815