Bindo Altoviti
c. 1515
Artist, Marchigian, 1483 - 1520
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 20
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on panel
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 59.7 x 43.8 cm (23 1/2 x 17 1/4 in.)
framed: 86.2 x 70.8 x 8.4 cm (33 15/16 x 27 7/8 x 3 5/16 in.) -
Accession
1943.4.33
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Commissioned by the sitter, then by inheritance in the Altoviti family, Rome and later Florence;[1] sold November 1808 via Johann Metzger to Ludwig I, King of Bavaria [1786-1868]; presented to the Alte Pinakothek, Munich; traded September 1938 to (Thos. Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London);[2] sold October 1938 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris);[3] sold 1940 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1943 to NGA.
[1] The complete provenance of this painting is described in David Alan Brown and Jane Van Nimmen, Raphael & the Beautiful Banker, New Haven and London, 2005.
[2] Regarding deaccessions from the Pinakothek, see also Jonathan Petropoulos, The Faustian Bargain, Oxford, 2000: 31+.
[3] The painting is listed in the General Stock Book of Duveen Brothers that covers the period 1 June 1937 to April 1941 (copy in NGA curatorial files; Duveen Brothers Records, Accession No. 960015, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Reel 66, Box 186).
[4] See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/390.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1983
Raphael and America, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1983, no. 98, repro.
2003
Raphael, Cellini & A Renaissance Banker: The Patronage of Bindo Altoviti, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, 2003-2004, no. 8, fig. 35, frontispiece.
2009
From Raphael to the Carracci: the Art of Papal Rome, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2009, no. 11, repro.
2012
Late Raphael, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2012-2013, no. 77, repro.
2017
Raphael, Albertina, Vienna, 2017-2018.
2022
Raphael, The National Gallery, London, 2022, no. 72, repro.
Bibliography
1941
Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: nos. 136-137, repros.
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 163, no. 534.
Richter, George Martin. "The New National Gallery in Washington." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 78 (June 1941): 178.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 250, repro. 175.
1944
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 50, color repro.
Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 37, repro.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 116, repro.
1956
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: 20, repro.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 98, repro.
1961
Walker, John, Guy Emerson, and Charles Seymour. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 107, repro. 97, color pl. 98.
1962
Neugass, Fritz. "Die Auflösung der Sammlung Kress." Die Weltkunst 32 (1 January, 1962): 4.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 306, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 107.
1966
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:132, color repro.
1968
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 105-106, fig. 255-256.
Gandolfo, Giampaolo et al. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Great Museums of the World. New York, 1968: 11, 44-45, color repro.
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:355.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 280, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:394-396; 2:pl. 280.
1982
Alsop, Joseph. The Rare Art Traditions: The History of Art Collecting and Its Linked Phenomena Wherever These Have Appeared. Bollingen series 35, no. 27. New York, 1982: 452.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 180, no. 200, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 326, repro.
1990
Campbell, Lorne. Renaissance Portraits: European Portrait-Painting in the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries. New Haven, 1990: 101, fig. 118.
1991
Morandotti, Alessandro. "La fortuna collezionistica della pittura gotica e rinascimentale fra Ottocento e Novecento." In Mauro Natale, ed. Pittura italiana dal '300 al '500. Milan, 1991: 39, 43.
1994
Costamagna, Philippe. Pontormo. Milan, 1994: 42, 138, 321.
2005
Brown, David Alan and Jane Van Nimmen. Raphael & the Beautiful Banker: The Story of the Bindo Altoviti Portrait. New Haven and London, 2005.
2006
Rosenberg, Pierre. Only in America: One Hundred Paintings in American Museums Unmatched in European Collections. Milan, 2006: 16, 17, color fig. 16.
2009
Baumstark, Reinhold, et al. Kurfürst Johann Wilhelms Bilder. 3 vols. Exh. cat. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, 2009: 1:245, 247 n. 64.
2011
Boskovits, Miklós, ed. The Alana Collection, Newark, Delaware, USA. Vol. II: Italian Paintings and Sculptures from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century. Florence, 2011: 237.
2013
Harris, Neil. Capital Culture: J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience. Chicago and London, 2013: 465.
Hodge, Susie. Raphael: His Life and Works in 500 Images. Wigston, Leicestershire, 2013: 205, color fig.
"Vasari and the National Gallery of Art." National Gallery of Art Bulletin 48 (Spring 2013): 16-17, repro.
2014
Jordán de Urríes y de la Colina, Javier. "El primer autorretrato de Mengs." Ars Magazine 7, no. 24 (octubre-diciembre 2014): 68, color fig
Mims, Bryan. "Asheville's Fortress of Art." Our State Down Home in North Carolina (1 October 2014): 40-42, 44, repro.
2015
Brown, David Alan. "Looking Backward; Americans Collect Italian Renaissance Art." In A Market for Merchant Princes: Collecting Italian Renaissance Paintings in America ed. Inge Reist. (The Frick Collection Studies in the History of Art Collecting in America, 2) University Park, Pennsylvania, 2015: 8.
2016
Jaques, Susan. The Empress of Art: Catherine the Great and the Transformation of Russia. New York, 2016: 398.
Rather, Susan. The American School: Artists and Status in the Late Colonial and Early National Era. New Haven, 2016: 98-99, color fig. 77; 247 note 31.
2022
Speelman, Anthony. A Tale of Two Monkeys: Adventures in the Art World. London, 2022: 75, 76, color fig. 28.
2024
Rath, Markus. "Grundmuster: Ausdrucksfunktionen des monochromen Hintergrundes im Renaissanceporträt" Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 87, no. 1 (2024): 105, fig. 25, 116, nn. 86, 87.
Wikidata ID
Q2528106