Portrait of a Man

late 15th century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on panel

  • Credit Line

    Timken Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 26.6 x 19.3 cm (10 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.)
    framed: 43.2 x 35.9 cm (17 x 14 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1960.6.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Possibly San Domenico, Fiesole; (Galerie Caspari, Munich).[1] Count Friedrich von Pourtalès [d. 1928], Silesia.[2] (A.S. Drey, Munich and New York); sold by 1929 to Carl W. Hamilton [1886-1967], New York;[3] (A.S. Drey, Munich and New York); sold 1930 to William R. Timken [1866-1949], New York; by inheritance to his widow, Lillian Guyer Timken [1881-1959], New York; bequest 1960 to NGA.
[1] Fritz Heinemann, Giovanni Bellini e i Belliniani, 2 vols., Venice, 1962: 1:274, lists these owners, without dates or documentation.
[2] Sale description by A.S. Drey (in NGA curatorial files).
[3] Malcolm Vaughan, "Masterpieces in the Hamilton Collection," Art News 28, no. 30 (27 April 1929): 89.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1923

  • Marle, Raimond van. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. 19 vols. The Hague, 1923-1938: 17(1935):303, as by Giovanni Bellini.

1929

  • Vaughan, Malcom. “Masterpieces in the Hamilton Collection.” Art News 28, no. 30 (27 April 1929): 89, repro.

1930

  • Gronau, Georg. Giovanni Bellini. New York, 1930: 213, pl. 134, as by Giovanni Bellini.

1933

  • Rueff, A. E. “Notes on the Michael Friedsam Collection.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 20 (1933): 7.

1935

  • Dussler, Luitpold. Giovanni Bellini. Frankfurt, 1935: 72.

1949

  • Dussler, Luitpold. Giovanni Bellini. Vienna, 1949: 72.

1962

  • Heinemann, Fritz. Giovanni Bellini e i belliniani. 2 vols. Venice, 1962: 1:274; 2:672, as by Alvise Vivarini.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 12, as Attributed to Giovanni Bellini.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 5, repro., as Attributed to Giovanni Bellini.

1972

  • Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 246, 647.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 24, repro., as Attributed to Giovanni Bellini.

1979

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:521-522; 2:pl. 363.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 419, repro.

2003

  • Boskovits, Miklós, David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2003: 668-670, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20173711

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