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Florentine 16th Century

Allegorical Portrait of Dante, late 16th century

Not on View

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

overall: 126.9 x 120 cm (49 15/16 x 47 1/4 in.)

framed: 165.7 x 158.8 x 8.3 cm (65 1/4 x 62 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1961.9.57

Artists / Makers

Florentine 16th Century (painter)

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Inscription

center on the open book, the first forty-eight linesof Canto XXV of Paradiso, beginning "Se mai continga..."

Provenance

William Graham [1817-1885], London.[1] Quintin McGarel Hogg, 2nd viscount Hailsham, London; (his sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 November 1953, no. 28, as by Vasari); purchased by Mawston. (International Financing Co., Panama); sold 1956 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] The painting does not appear in the 1886 Graham estate sale.

[2] Provenance according to Kress files in NGA curatorial records. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/183.

Associated Names

Graham, William
Hogg, 2nd Viscount Hailsham, Quintin McGarel
International Financing Company, Panama
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Mawston
Sotheby's, London

Exhibition History

1961: Exhibition of Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1961-1962, no. 24.

2000: Visions du Futur: Une histoire des peurs et des espoirs de l'humanité, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 2000-2001, no. 75, repro.

2010: Bronzino. Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici., Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2010-2011, no. IV.4, repro.

Bibliography

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: 3, repro.

1963: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 136, repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 50.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 42, repro.

1973: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 21-22, fig. 44.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 128, repro.

1979: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:514-516; 2:pl. 360, as Circle of Giorgio Vasari.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 184, no. 207, color repro.

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

1997: Cecchi, Alessandro. Agnolo Bronzino, Firenze, 1996, no. 20, repro.