Portrait of a Young Man, c. 1505

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

overall (maximum height and width): 28.1 x 23.3 cm (11 1/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
overall (minimum height and width): 27.9 x 23 cm (11 x 9 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.96

Artists / Makers

Venetian 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

Anonymous collection or dealer, Cremona, Italy; sold c. 1875 to Sir John Charles Robinson, London and Newton Manor, Dorset. Thomas Humphry Ward [d. 1926], London; sold 1900 to (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London); sold 1900 to Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from the Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park; gift 1942 to NGA.

Associated Names

Widener, Joseph E.

Bibliography

1916: Berenson, Bernard, and William Roberts. Pictures in the Collection of P.A.B. Widener at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: Early Italian and Spanish Schools. Philadelphia, 1916: unpaginated, repro.

1923: Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1923: unpaginated, repro.

1931: Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1931: 140, repro.

1942: Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 7.

1948: Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 12, repro.

1963: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 303, repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 135.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 121, repro.

1972: Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 30, 646, as by Boccaccio Boccaccino (?).

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 360, repro.

1979: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:24-25; 2:pl. 15, as Self-Portrait(?) by Jacopo de' Barbari.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 112, no. 90, color repro., as by Venetian School

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 419, repro.

2002: Quodbach, Esmée. "The Last of the American Versailles: The Widener Collection at Lynnewood Hall." Simiolus 29, no. 1/2 (2002): 94.