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Giuliano Bugiardini

Leonardo de' Ginori, c. 1528

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 19

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

overall: 62.9 x 47 cm (24 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.)

framed: 89.5 x 73.7 x 10.2 cm (35 1/4 x 29 x 4 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.36

Artists / Makers

Giuliano Bugiardini (painter) Florentine, 1475 - 1554

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Inscription

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.

Associated Names

Nardus, Leo
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

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.

1924: Fischel, Oskar. Tizian: Des Meisters Gemälde. 5th ed. Stuttgart, 1924: 308, as Baldassarre Castiglione, by a North Italian artist close to Vincenzo Catena.

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.

1933: Venturi, Lionello. Italian Paintings in America, 3 vols. New York, 1933: 3:pl. 450, as Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione.

1936: Berenson, Bernard. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936: 120, as Baldassarre Castiglione, by Vincenzo Catena (?).

1937: Gronau, Georg. "Some Portraits by Titian and Raphael." Art in America 25, no. 3 (1937): 103 n. 14, as not by Vincenzo Catena.

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.

1972: Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 172, 511, as Follower of Raphael.

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

1986: Ginori Lisci, Leonardo. “Ho ritrovato uno dei miei antenati alla National Gallery di Washington.” La Nazione (7 January 1986): 3.

1987: Pagnotta, Laura. Giuliano Bugiardini. Turin, 1987: 58, 217, cat. 39, fig. 39.

1992: Pagnotta, Laura. “Due dipinti e un disegno di Giuliano Bugiardini.” Antichità Viva 31, no. 2 (1992): 11.

1993: Ferrazza, Roberta. Palazzo Davanzati e le collezioni di Elia Volpi. Florence, 1993: 94, 97 fig. 89, 137 n. 61.

2002: Quodbach, Esmée. "The Last of the American Versailles: The Widener Collection at Lynnewood Hall." Simiolus 29, no. 1/2 (2002): 95.

2016: Bayer, Andrea. "Giuliano Bugiardini: A Master of Theme and Variation." In James Clifton, ed. A Golden Age of European Art: Celebrating Fifty Years of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation. Houston, 2016: 71.

2017: Schumacher, Andreas, ed. Florentiner Malerei. Alte Pinakothek: Die Gemälde des 14. bis 16. Jahrhunderts. Munich, 2017: 563, fig. 41.2.

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.