Portrait of a Member of the Quaratesi Family
1561
Artist
French 16th Century
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on probably oak
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 103.5 x 87 cm (40 3/4 x 34 1/4 in.)
framed: 129.5 x 113.7 x 6.4 cm (51 x 44 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.) -
Accession Number
1991.14.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence); purchased September 1931 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] Mrs. Rush H. Kress, New York; gift (partial and promised) 1991 to NGA; gift completed 2006.
[1] Lisa Ackerman, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, letter to John Oliver Hand, 8 January 1997; the letter and a copy of the bill of sale dated 13 September 1931, in which the painting is identified as Portrait of a Man by Antonis Mor (or Antonio Moro), are in NGA curatorial files; see also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1707.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1951
Twenty-five Paintings from the Collection of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1951, no. 13, as Count Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg-Saarbruecken by Antonis Mor.
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, 22-23, color repro.
Bibliography
1977
Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 252-253, fig. 238.
2009
Conisbee, Philip, et al. French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2009: no. 46, 219-221, color repro.
Inscriptions
upper left: ANNO AETATIS SVE 34 / ET DE ANNO 1561
Wikidata ID
Q20176708