Portrait of a Knight
c. 1525
Artist, Brescian, c. 1480 - 1548 or after
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 23
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 88.3 x 73.4 cm (34 3/4 x 28 7/8 in.)
framed: 110.5 x 94.9 x 8.3 cm (43 1/2 x 37 3/8 x 3 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1952.5.74
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Bartolommeo della Nave, Venice; sold 1638 through Basil Feilding, 2nd earl of Denbigh [d. 1675], to James Hamilton, 1st duke of Hamilton [d. 1649], Hamilton Palace, Strathclyde, Scotland.[1] Leopold Wilhelm, Archduke of Austria, Bishop of Passau and Governor of the Spanish Netherlands [1614-1662], Brussels and Vienna, by 1659;[2] by inheritance to Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I [1640-1705]; by descent to Holy Roman Emperors; by trade to the Princes of Liechtenstein, by 1805, Vienna, and later Vaduz;[3] sold 8 March 1951 through (Frederick Mont, Inc., New York) to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1952 to NGA.
[1] James Hamilton was beheaded in 1649; his collection was in the custody of the Earl of Denbigh before 1648, and the Earl was presumably responsible for its disposal.
[2] According to an inventory of the Archduke's collection, dated 14 July 1659, published by Adolf Berger, "Inventar der Kunstsammlung des Erzherzogs Leopold Wilhelm von Österreich," _Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des Allerhochsten Kaiserhauses_1 (1883): XCIII, no. 117.
[3] Erich V. Strohmer, Die Gemäldegalerie des Fürsten Liechtenstein in Wein, Vienna, 1943: 90, no. 70.
[4] According to Kress records in NGA curatorial files. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1672.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1948
Meisterwerke aus den Sammlungen des Fürsten von Lichtenstein, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, 1948, no. 29, repro.
1979
Berenson and the Connoisseurship of Italian Painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 93, repro.
1990
Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo: tra Foppa Giorgione e Caravaggio, Monastero S. Giulia, Brescia, 1990, no. I.27, repro and Schirn, Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (as Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo und die Renaissance zwischen Lombardei und Venetien), no. I.26, repro.
2007
Knights in Shining Armor: Myth and Reality 1450-1650, Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania, 2007, fig. 30.
Bibliography
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 163, 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: 101, color repro. pl. 92.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 308, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 121.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 108, repro.
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 89, fig. 216.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 318, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:416-418; 2:pl. 298.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 223, no. 275, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 369, repro.
2021
Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. "In Pursuit of Masterpieces: The National Gallery of Art's Acquisitions from The Prince of Liecthenstein." Artibus et historiae 42, no. 83 (2021): 317, 329 n. 15.
Wikidata ID
Q20175843