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North Italian 15th Century

Portrait of a Man, c. 1475/1500

Not on View

Medium

tempera on poplar panel

Dimensions

overall: 37 x 27 cm (14 9/16 x 10 5/8 in.)

framed: 63.5 x 52.7 x 7.5 cm (25 x 20 3/4 x 2 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1939.1.357

Artists / Makers

North Italian 15th Century (painter)

Image Use

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Provenance

(Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin), by 1929;[1] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York), by 1933; sold March 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1939 to NGA.

[1] Adolfo Venturi, "Un ritratto di Cosmè Tura," L'arte 33 [New Series vol. 1] (May 1930): 283-284.

[2] Duveen Brothers lent the painting to the 1933 exhibition in Ferrara. Their letter confirming the sale of twenty-four paintings to the Kress Foundation, including NGA 1939.1.357, is dated 9 March 1937; the provenance is given as "Collection Matthiesen Gallery" (copy in NGA curatorial files; 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/1690.

Associated Names

Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
The Matthiesen Gallery

Exhibition History

1933: Esposizione della Pittura Ferrarese del Rinascimento, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Ferrara, 1933, no. 62, as by Cosmè Tura.

2002: Cosmè Tura: Painting and Design in Renaissance Ferrara, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2002, no. 16, repro., as by Follower of Cosmè Tura.

Bibliography

1930: Venturi, Adolfo. “Un ritratto di Cosmè Tura.” L’Arte 33, n.s. 1 (May 1930): 283-284, fig. 1, as by Cosmè Tura.

1933: Serra, Luigi. “La mostra della pittura ferrarese del Rinascimento.” Bollettino d’Arte 26 (1933): 580, as not by Cosmè Tura, possibly a later forgery.

1934: Longhi, Roberto. Officina Ferrarese. Rome, 1934: 40-41, figs. 47, 48, as by Marco Zoppo.

1936: Ragghianti, Carlo. “Un disegno di Marco Zoppo.” Critica d’Arte 1, no. 3 (February 1936): 139, fig. 2, as by Marco Zoppo.

1941: Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 62, repro., as by Cosmè Tura.

1941: Ortolani, Sergio. Cosmè Tura, Francesco del Cossa, Ercole de'Roberti. Milan, 1941: 64, fig. 32, as by Cosmè Tura.

1941: Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 199, no. 450, as by Cosmè Tura.

1941: Richter, George Martin. "The New National Gallery in Washington." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 78 (June 1941): 178, as Attributed to Francesco del Cossa.

1942: Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 248, repro. 200, as by Cosmè Tura.

1945: Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 73, repro., as by Cosmè Tura.

1950: Nicolson, Benedict. The Painters of Ferrara. London, 1950: 18.

1951: Einstein, Lewis. Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1951: 50 n. 1.

1953: Neppi, Alberto. Cosmè Tura: saggio critico. Milan, 1953: 85-86, 136, as by Cosmè Tura.

1957: Salmi, Mario. Cosmè Tura. Milan, 1957: 55-56, pl. 51, as by Lorenzo Costa.

1958: Ruhmer, Eberhard. Tura: Paintings and Drawings. London and New York, 1958: 21, 172, fig. 16, as by Cosmè Tura.

1959: Chastel, André. “Tura and the Secrets of Ferrara.” Art News 57, no. 10 (February 1959): 41.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 121, repro., as by Cosmè Tura.

1962: Cappi Bentivegna, Ferruccia. Abbigliamento e costuma nella pittura italiana rinascimentale. 2 vols. Rome, 1962-1964: 1(1962):88, fig. 118, as by Marco Zoppo.

1963: Bianconi, Pietro. Tutta la pittura di Cosmè Tura. Milan, 1963: 61.

1964: Bonicatti, Maurizio. Aspetti dell'Umanesimo nella pittura veneta dal 1455 al 1515. Rome, 1964: 20, as by Cosmè Tura.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 132.

1966: Ruhmer, Eberhard. Marco Zoppo. Vicenza, 1966: 52, 98, repro.

1966: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 82-83, fig. 230.

1967: Parronchi, Alessandro. “Probabila traccia per l’autore del Trionfe della Morte in Palermo.” Antichità Viva 6 (1967): 8, fig. 15.

1968: Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:433, as by Cosmè Tura.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 119, repro.

1972: Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: xxi, 205, 646, as by Cosmè Tura or Marco Zoppo.

1974: Molajoli, Rosemarie. L'Opera completa di Cosmè Tura e i grandi pittori ferraresi del suo tempo: Francesco Cossa e Ercole de'Roberti. Milan, 1974: 90, fig. 52.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 352, repro.

1976: Armstrong, Lilian. The Paintings and Drawings of Marco Zoppo. New York, 1976: 140, 385, fig. 30, as by Marco Zoppo.

1979: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:511-512; 2:pl. 358, as Attributed to Cosmè Tura.

1980: Ragghianti, Carlo L. “Galleria di Washington.” Critica d’Arte 45, nos. 154-156 (1980): 219-220, as by Marco Zoppo.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 403, repro.

1991: Manca, Joseph. “A Note on Cosmè Tura as Portraitist.” Antichità Viva 30, no. 3 (1991): 18-19, fig. 2.

1997: Campbell, Stephen J. Cosmè Tura of Ferrara: Style, Politics and the Renaissance City, 1450-1495. New Haven, 1997: 24-26, fig. 16.

1999: Molteni, Monica. Cosmè Tura. Milan, 1999: 25, repro.

2000: Manca, Joseph. Cosmè Tura: The Life and Art of a Painter in Estense Ferrara. Oxford, 2000: 173, fig. 113.

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: 544-547, color repro.