Portrait of a Man
early 1520s
Artist, Florentine, 1494 - 1540
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 21
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on panel
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 88.7 x 67.9 cm (34 15/16 x 26 3/4 in.)
framed: 119.4 x 97.5 x 10.2 cm (47 x 38 3/8 x 4 in.) -
Accession
1961.9.59
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Sir Thomas Sebright, Beechwood Park, England, by 1857;[1] Sir Giles Edward Sebright, 13th Bt., Beechwood Park, Hertfordshire, England; (Sebright sale, Christie's, London, 2 July 1937, no. 128, as Andrea del Sarto); purchased by Marshall.[2] (Eugenio Ventura, Rome, Italy). (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence and Rome); sold 1950 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1961 to NGA.
[1] Published in Waagen, 1857.
[2] Annotated sales catalogue.
[3] See The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1703.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1956
Mostra del Pontormo, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 1956, no. 161, repro.
1996
L'officina della maniera. Varietà e fierezza nell'arte fiorentina del Cinquecento fra le due repubbliche 1494-1530, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, 1996-1997, no. 133, repro.
2005
Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2005, no. 59, repro.
2014
Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino. Diverging Paths of Mannerism, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2014, no. IV.2.6, repro.
2021
The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2021, no. 3, repro.
Bibliography
1951
Longhi, Roberto. "Review of Il Rosso Fiorentino by Paola Barocchi." Paragone 13 (1951): 62, repro.
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1945-1951. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 130, no. 55, repro.
1953
Briganti, Guilano. "Una Madonna del Rosso." Paragone 43 (1953):51
1959
Keutner, Herbert. "Zu einigen Bildnissen des Frühen Florentiner Manierismus." Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 8, no. 3 (January 1959):139+, repro.
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 106, 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: 108, color repro. pl. 99.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 307, repro.
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Florentine School. 2 vols. London, 1963: 1:195, as by Rosso Fiorentino (?).
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 116.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 104, repro.
1973
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 9-10, fig. 15.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 310, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:410-411; 2:pl. 290.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 182, no. 203, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 356, repro.
1994
Costamagna, Philippe. Pontormo. Milan, 1994: 72, 107, 120, 317.
1996
Béguin, Sylvie. “Pontormo et Rosso.” In Roberto P. Ciardi and Antonio Natali, eds. Pontormo e Rosso: Atti del convegno di Empoli e Volterra. Progetto Appiani di Piombino. Venice, 1996: 92-93, figs. 100-101.
2004
Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 98-99, no. 73, color repro.
2015
Avrillier, Sigrid. Un portrait de Pontormo peintre florentin du XVIe siècle. Paris, 2015: 15, fig. 6.
Wikidata ID
Q3937706