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across bottom reverse: Lionardo G[inori]

Provenance

(Leo Nardus [1868-1955], Suresnes, France, and New York); sold 1905 to Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, as by Raphael;[1] inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park; gift 1942 to NGA.

[1] Provenance according to notes by Edith Standen, the Widener curator, in NGA curatorial files. Three wax seals on the reverse of the painting have been identified by Ross Watson (see Fern Rusk Shapley, Catalogue of the Italian Paintings, 2 vols., Washington, D.C., 1979: 1:95-96). The two that include crosses, with only partly legible inscriptions, depict the arms of the king of Italy; they are presumably government seals. The third seal is that of a prince of the Holy Roman Empire, and bears the arms of the Rospigliosi on the left and the Oldescalchi on the right.

Bibliography
1916
Berenson, Bernard, and William Roberts. Pictures in the Collection of P.A.B. Widener at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: Early Italian and Spanish Schools. Philadelphia, 1916: unpaginated, repro., as Portrait Bust of Baldassare Castiglione by Unknown Italian Master.
1923
Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1923: unpaginated, repro., as Portrait Bust of Baldassare Castiglione by Unknown Italian Master.
1931
Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1931: 158, repro., as Portrait Bust of Baldassare Castiglione by Unknown Italian Master.
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 5, as Italian Master, Baldassare Castiglione.
1948
Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 17, repro., as Italian Master, Baldassare Castiglione.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 70, as Italian School, Baldassare Castiglione.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 62, repro., as Italian School, Baldassare Castiglione.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 180, repro., as Italian School, Baldassare Castiglione.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:94-96; 2:pl. 64, 64A, as Portrait of a Gentleman.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 172, no. 194, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 71, repro., as Portrait of a Man
1993
Ferrazza, Roberta. Palazzo Davanzati e le collezioni di Elia Volpi. Florence, 1993: 94, 97 fig. 89, 137 n. 61.
2021
Quodbach, Esmée. "A forgotten episode from America's history of collecting: the rise and fall of art dealer Leo Nardus, 1894-1908." Simiolus 43, no. 4 (2021): 353-375, esp. 358, 360 fig. 8, 373.
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