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Neapolitan 15th Century

Albarello with a portrait of a youth (Mitriano), c. 1480

Not on View

Medium

tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)

Dimensions

overall (height by diameter): 28.6 × 13 cm (11 1/4 × 5 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2015.19.4039

Artists / Makers

Neapolitan 15th Century (ceramist)

Image Use

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Inscription

on band to right of portrait: MITRIANO

Provenance

Émile Gavet [1830-1904], Paris;[1] purchased by William Andrews Clark [1839-1925], New York;[2] bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] Émile Molinier, Collection Émile Gavet, catalogue raisonné précédé d'une historique et archéologique sur les oeuvres d'art qui compose cette collection, Paris, 1889: 104, no. 440.

[2] See the Clark collection records in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Gavet, Émile

Exhibition History

2007: Masterpieces: European Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 7 February - 12 August 2007, no catalogue.

Bibliography

1889: Molinier, Émile. Collection Émile Gavet, catalogue raisonné précédé d'une historique et archéologique sur les oeuvres d'art qui compose cette collection. Paris, 1889: 104, no. 440.

1925: Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part II. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 265, no. 97.

1955: Breckenridge, James D. "Italian Maiolica in the W.A. Clark Collection." The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin 7, no. 3 (April 1955): no. 7.

1986: Watson, Wendy M. Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection. Exh. cat. (11 venues). London and Washington, 1986: 70-71, no. 24, repro.