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North Italian 15th Century

Profile Portrait of a Boy, c. 1460/1470

Not on View

Medium

tempera and oil on panel

Dimensions

overall: 25.1 x 17.8 cm (9 7/8 x 7 in.)

framed: 48.6 x 37.5 cm (19 1/8 x 14 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1939.1.263

Artists / Makers

North Italian 15th Century (painter)

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Provenance

Otto Mündler [1811-1870], Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, possibly 27 November 1871, no. 48, or 30 November 1871, no. 52);[1] Gustave Dreyfus [1937-1914], Paris; his heirs; purchased 1930 with the entire Dreyfus collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York);[2] sold March 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1939 to NGA.

[1] The item in question is listed, without measurements, as "Petit portrait d'homme vue en buste" and attributed to Morone in the catalogue of 27 November and as "Petit portrait d'homme" by an unknown artist in the catalogue of 30 November.

[2] See Die Sammlung..., 1930: 448; Frank Rutter, "Notes from Abroad," International Studio 96 (August 1930): 65; Frank Rutter, "Notes from Abroad. The Dreyfus Collection--Other Notes," International Studio 97 (September 1930): 60-62; as well as Carlyle Burrows, "Letter from New York," Apollo 13 (1931): 110-111.

[3] The Duveen Brothers letter confirming the sale of twenty-four paintings, including NGA 1939.1.263, is dated 9 March 1937; the provenance is given as "Dreyfus Collection" (copy in NGA curatorial files; reel 329, box 474, folder 5, Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles). See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1737.

Associated Names

Dreyfus, Gustave
Drouot, Hôtel
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Mündler, Otto

Exhibition History

1940: Italian Renaissance Portraits, M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1940, no. 2, repro.

1991: Le Muse e il Principe. Arte de corte nel Rinascimento padano, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, 1991, no. 57, fig. 172, as Profilo di fanciullo by Francesco del Cossa.

Bibliography

1905: Reinach, Salomon. Répertoire de peintures du moyen âge et de la Renaissance (1280-1580). 6 vols. Paris, 1905-1923: 3(1910):106, as by Jacopo Bellini.

1906: Reinach, Salomon. Tableaux inedits ou peu connus tires de collections francaises. Paris, 1906: 47, pl. 17, as by Lorenzo di Credi.

1907: Berenson, Bernard. North Italian Painters of the Renaissance. New York and London, 1907: 171, as by Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio.

1908: Guiffrey, Jean. “La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus. II. La peinture.” Les Artes, no. 73 (January 1908): 14, 15, repro., as by Alvise Vivarini.

1910: Cagnola, Guido. “Un’interessante acquista della Fondazione ARtistica Poldi Poezzoli.” Rassegna d’Arte 10 (1910): 65, as by Jacopo Bellini.

1910: Phillips, Claude. “An Unrecognized Portrait by Jacopo Bellini.” The Burlington Magazine 16 (1910): 200-207, repro., as by Jacopo Bellini.

1912: Crowe, Joseph Archer, and Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle. A History of Painting in North Italy. Ed. Tancred Borenius. 3 vols. London, 1912: 1:116 n. 2, as by Jacopo Bellini.

1915: Testi, Laudedeo. La storia della pittura veneziana. 2. Il devenire. Bergamo, 1915: 280, as not by Jacopo Bellini.

1916: Fiocco, Giuseppe. “I pittori da Santacroce.” L’Arte 19 (1916): 187, as by Girolamo da Santacroce.

1923: Marle, Raimond van. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. 19 vols. The Hague, 1923-1938: 13(1931):315 n. 3, as not by Lorenzo di Credi; 17(1935):121-122, 123, repro., as by Jacopo Bellini.

1930: Rutter, Frank. “Notes from Abroad. The Dreyfus Collection—Other Notes.” International Studio 97 (September 1930): 62, 63, repro., as by Jacopo Bellini.

1930: Venturi, Lionello. “Contributi a Jacopo Bellini.” L’Arte 33 (1930): 186, 189, fig. 9, as by Jacopo Bellini.

1933: Venturi, Lionello. Italian Paintings in America. 3 vols. New York and Milan, 1933: 2:pl. 334, as by Jacopo Bellini.

1940: Frankfurter, Alfred M. “Great Renaissance Portraits: A Unique Exhibition of Twenty-Five Italian Masterpieces at Knoedler’s.” Art News 39, no. 6 (16 March 1940): 7-9, repro., as by Jacopo Bellini.

1941: Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 59, repro., as by Jacopo Bellini.

1941: Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 22, no. 374, as by Jacopo Bellini.

1942: Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 247, repro. 71, as by Jacopo Bellini.

1944: Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: repro., as by Jacopo Bellini.

1944: Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries. New York, 1944: 111, as by Jacopo Bellini.

1945: Grassi, Luigi. “Museo Nazionale di Washington.” Arti figurative 1, nos. 1-2 (1945): 234, as "by a Ferrarese master close to [Francesco del] Cossa."

1945: Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 83, repro., as Portrait of a Boy by Jacopo Bellini.

1957: Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School. 2 vols. London, 1957: 1:39, as by Jacopo Bellini.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 130, repro., as by Jacopo Bellini.

1959: Röthlisberger, Marcel. “Studi su Jacopo Bellini.” Saggi e memorie di storia dell’arte 2 (1958-1959): 43, 78, as by Jacopo Bellini.

1965: Schmitt, Ursula Barbara. "Jacopo Bellini." In Dizionario biografico degli italiani. Alberto Maria Ghisalberti. 56+ vols. Rome, 1960-: 7(1965):610-611, as by Jacopo Bellini.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 13.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 5, repro.

1968: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 29-30, fig. 92, as Attributed to Jacopo Bellini.

1972: Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Mass., 1972: xxii, 35, 646, as by Francesco Botticini in the opinion of Zeri (following Roberto Longhi), but by Venetian School in the opinion of Fredericksen.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 24, repro.

1979: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:87-88; 2:pl. 58, as by Francesco Botticini.

1980: Ragghianti, Carlo L. “Galleria di Washington.” Critica d’Arte 45, nos. 154-156 (1980): 218, as Close to Jacopo Bellini.

1982: Sutton, Denys. “Sir Claude Phillips: First Keeper of the Wallace Collection.” Apollo 116, no. 249 (November 1982): 325, as by Francesco Botticini.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 43, repro.

1986: Bacchi, Andrea. “Tre artisti nella Bologna dei Bentivoglio: Appunti su una mostra.” Arte Cristiana 74, no. 715 (July – August 1986): 284, fig. 2, as by Francesco del Cossa (?).

1989: Eisler, Colin. The Genius of Jacopo Bellini: The Complete Painting and Drawings. New York, 1989: 529, as not by Jacopo Bellini.

1991: Bacchi, Andrea. Francesco del Cossa. Soncino, 1991: 26, 27, repro., as by Francesco del Cossa.

1991: Heinemann, Fritz. Giovanni Bellini e i Belliniani, Vol. III. Supplemento e Ampliamenti. Hildesheim, 1991: 89, as by Girolamo Mocetto.

1991: Molfino, Alessandra Mottola, and Mauro Natale, eds. Le Muse e il Principe: Arte di corte nel Rinascimento Padano. 2 vols. Exh. cat. Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, 1991: 1:216, as by Francesco del Cossa.

1993: Gagliardi, Jacques. La conquête de la peinture: L’Europe des ateliers du XIIIe au XVe siècle. Paris, 1993: 488, as by Francesco del Cossa.

1994: Venturini, Lisa. Francesco Botticini. Florence, 1994: 21 n. 64, as probably by an Emilian painter.

2003: Boskovits, Miklós, and David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003: 226-229, color repro., as Attributed to Francesco del Cossa.

2003: Sgarbi, Vittorio. Francesco del Cossa. Milan, 2003: 49 repro., 80, 223, cat. 2, as by Francesco del Cossa.

2006: Fahy, Everett. "Early Italian paintings in Washington and Philadelphia." The Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1241 (August 2006): 539, calls the designation "Attributed to Francesco del Cossa" preferrable to "North Italian Fifteenth Century."