Ugolino Martelli

mid 16th century

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 21

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on panel

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 91.4 x 68 cm (36 x 26 3/4 in.)
    framed: 123.5 x 102.2 x 6.4 cm (48 5/8 x 40 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1939.1.79

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence and Rome); sold 1931 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York[1]; gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] See also the Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2401.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1932

  • An Exhibition of Italian Paintings Lent by Mr. Samuel H. Kress of New York to Museums, Colleges, and Art Associations, travelling exh., 24 venues, 1932-1935, mostly unnumbered cats., p. 21 and p. 25, repro., as Portrait of a Young Man by Pontormo.

Bibliography

1941

  • Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 158, no. 190, as Portrait of a Young Man by Pontormo.

1942

  • Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 243, repro. 171, as Portrait of a Young Man by Pontormo.

1945

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 121, repro., as by Pontormo.

1959

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 110, repro., as by Pontormo.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 104, as by Pontormo.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 92, repro., as by Pontormo.

1973

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 14-15, fig. 25.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 272, repro., as by Pontormo.

1979

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: I:379-380; II:pl. 274, as by Follower of Pontormo.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 187, no. 210, color repro., as by Pontormo.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 154, repro.

1994

  • Costamagna, Philippe. Pontormo. Milan, 1994: 328-329, cat. A134, as by Lorenzo Zacchia (?).

Wikidata ID

Q20175866

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