Portrait of a Man

c. 1490/1500

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 12

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on panel

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 56.5 × 40 cm (22 1/4 × 15 3/4 in.)
    framed: 80.01 × 63.18 × 6.35 cm (31 1/2 × 24 7/8 × 2 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1952.5.71

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Probably the dukes of Anhalt, Gotisches Haus, Wörlitz, near Dessau.[1] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris).[2] Clarence H. Mackay [1874-1938], Roslyn, New York, by 1929;[3] by inheritance 1938 to his wife, Mrs. Anne Case Mackay, Roslyn, New York; consigned 1951 with (Paul Drey, New York), for sale by (French & Company, New York);[4] purchased March 1951 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[5] gift 1952 to NGA.
[1] Unverified, but quite likely; the painting is mentioned as coming from the dukes of Anhalt collection by Lionello Venturi, "Contributi a Carlo Crivelli, a Vittore Carpaccio," L'Arte, n.s., 1 (1930): 384, and by Peter J. Wojcik, of Paul Drey Gallery, letter of 4 October 1989 to John Hand, in NGA curatorial files.
[2] Peter J. Wojcik letter of 4 October 1989 cited in note 1.
[3] Royal Cortissoz, "The Clarence H. Mackay Collection," International Studio 94 (1929): 34, repro. 32, records the painting as belonging to Mackay.
[4] Peter J. Wojcik letter of 4 October 1989 cited in note 1.
[5] See The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1692.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1935

  • Fifteenth Century Portraits, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1935, no. 15, as by Carlo Crivelli.

2010

  • Van Eyck to Dürer, Groeningemuseum, Bruges, 2010-2011, no. 255, repro.

Bibliography

1923

  • Marle, Raimond van. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. 19 vols. The Hague, 1923-1938: 18(1936):18, 20-22, fig. 12.

1929

  • Cortissoz, Royal. "The Clarence H. Mackay Collection." International Studio 94 (1929): 34, repro. 32

1930

  • Venturi, Lionello. "Contributi a Carlo Crivelli, a Vittore Carpaccio." L'Arte N.S. 1 (1930): 384, 393, repro. 385.

1931

  • Fiocco, Giuseppe. "Ein neuer Crivelli." Pantheon 7 (1931): 250.

  • Venturi, Lionello. Pitture italiane in America. Milan, 1931: pl. 278.

1932

  • Fiocco, Giuseppe. "Porträts aus der Emilia." Pantheon 10 (1932): 340, repro. 341.

  • Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places. Oxford, 1932: 161.

1933

  • Venturi, Lionello. Italian Paintings in America. 3 vols. New York and Milan, 1933: 2: pl. 372.

1936

  • Berenson, Bernard. I Pittori italiani del Rinascimento. Milan, 1936: pl. 6.

1959

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 112, repro., as by North Italian Master.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 97, as North Italian School.

1967

  • Anzelewsky, Fedja. "Ein Unbekanntes deutsches Fürstenporträt des 15. Jahrhunderts." Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 9 (1967): 156-164, repro.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 85, repro., as North Italian School.

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 38-39, fig. 91.

1969

  • Zeri, Federico. "Review of Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. Italian Schools XV-XVI Century by Fern Rusk Shapley." The Burlington Magazine 111 (1969): 455.

1970

  • Ringler, Josef. "Ein Tiroler Fürstenbildnis der Spätgotik in Washington." Der Schlern 44 (1970): 77-78, repro. facing 76.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 254, repro., as North Italian School.

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 116, no. 99, repro.

1979

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:437-438; 2:pl. 317, as Swiss Master.

1983

  • Bonsanti, Giorgio. "Maria di Borgogna in un Ritratto di Michael Pacher." Paragone 34, no. 397 (1983): 18-19, pl. 9.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 116, no. 93, color repro., as by North Italian School.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 293, repro., as North Italian 15th Century.

1993

  • Hand, John Oliver, with the assistance of Sally E. Mansfield. German Paintings of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, 1993: 181-186, color repro. 182.

1995

  • Löcher, Kurt. Review of German Paintings of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries, by John Oliver Hand with the assistance of Sally E. Mansfield. Kunstchronik 43 no. 1 (January 1995): 20.

2011

  • Borchert, Till-Holdger. "Portrait of a Man." In Van Eyck to Dürer: The Influence of Early Netherlandish Painting on European Art, 1430-1530. Edited by Till-Holger Borchert. Exh. cat. Bruges 2010. London, 2011: 459, no. 255, 531, color fig.

2017

  • Serres, Karen. "Duveen's Italian framemaker, Ferruccio Vannoni." The Burlington Magazine 159, no. 1370 (May 2017): 372-373 n. 38.

Wikidata ID

Q20174539

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