Don Pedro Alvarez de Toledo, c. 1560/1600

West Building, Main Floor - West Sculpture Hall

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 64.6 x 62.7 x 39.4 cm (25 7/16 x 24 11/16 x 15 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Stanley Mortimer

Accession Number

1948.15.1

Artists / Makers

Florentine 16th Century (sculptor)

Neapolitan 16th Century (sculptor)

Image Use

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Provenance

Stanley Mortimer [1897-1984], New York, and Litchfield, Connecticut;[1] gift 1948 to NGA.

[1] Stanley Mortimer probably inherited the sculpture from his father, also Stanley Mortimer, who was a portrait painter and who in the 1890s built a sixty-room English Tudor manor house on his estate on Long Island and filled it with Renaissance art. (See Steven M.L. Aronson, "A Life in the Country: Patrician bohemians Barbara and Stanley Mortimer look back on a charmed circle of family and friends," House and Garden [April 1984]: 165-171, 230, 232.)

Associated Names

Mortimer, Stanley

Bibliography

1952: Alvarex-Ossorio, F. "Virreyes de Napoles que figuran en las medallas del siglo XVI, Conservadas en el Museo Arqueologico Nacional." in Museo Arqueologico Nacional (ed.) Numario Hispanico vol. 1. Madrid, 1952: 188-208.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 161, as Attributed to Leone Leoni, A Member of the Order of Santiago.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 142, repro., as Attributed to Leone Leoni, A Member of the Order of Santiago.

1975: Middeldorf, Ulrich. "On Some Portrait Busts Attributed to leone Leoni." The Burlington Magazine 117 (February 1975): 84-90, repro. fig. 19.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 636, no. 995, repro., as Pietro Strozzi by Giovanni Francesco Rustici.

1987: Collareta, Marco. "Appunti: Un busto napoletano a Washington." Paragone 38 (January 1987): 53-56, repro. fig. 60.

1989: Talamo, Emila Anna. "I messali miniati del cardinale Juan Alvarez de Toledo." Storia dell'arte 66 (1989): 159-170.

1992: Abbate, Francesco. La sucltura napoletana del cinquenceto. Rome, 1992: 256.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 88, repro.

2007: Sénéchal, Philippe. Giovan Francesco Rustici 1475-1554. Un sculpteur de la Renaissance entre Florence et Paris. Paris, 2007: 253-4, repro.