Portrait of a Youth
c. 1495/1500
Painter, Florentine, 1466 - 1513
Painter, Florentine, 1460 - after 1515
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 6
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on panel transferred to canvas and solid support
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
painted surface: 51.5 x 34 cm (20 1/4 x 13 3/8 in.)
overall: 52.5 x 35 cm (20 11/16 x 13 3/4 in.)
framed: 73.7 x 56.5 x 6.4 cm (29 x 22 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1939.1.294
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Onnes van Nijenrode, Château de Nijenrode, The Netherlands; (his sale, Frederick Muller, Amsterdam, 10 July 1923, no. 20, as by Pintoricchio). (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris), by 1926; sold May 1928 to Ernst Rosenfeld, New York;[1] after 1936, (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold 1938 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] Duveen Brothers Records, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, box 506, reel 361, folder 5.The painting was lent by Rosenfeld to a 1929 exhibition at Knoedler Galleries. A list of objects in the Rosenfeld collection dated 1936 is in the Schaeffer Gallery Records, American Client box no. 2, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. It was published as Rosenfeld collection in Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Ranaissance, Oxford, 1932: 360, and Lionello Venturi, Italian Pictures in America, 3 vols., Milan, 1933: 2:332.
[2] See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1727.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1926
[Loan exhibition of three masterpieces by Rembrandt, Hobbema, and Pinturrichio (Courtesy of Sir Jo. Duveen)], Art Gallery of Toronto [now Art Gallery of Ontario], 1926, no cat., as by Pinturrichio.
1929
Loan Exhibition of Primitives, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1929, no. 17, as by Pinturicchio.
Bibliography
1923
Marle, Raimond van. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. 19 vols. The Hague, 1923-1938: 14(1933):247, 248, pl. 161, as by Pintoricchio.
Friedländer, Max J. “Die Primitiven von Schloss Nijnrode.” In Primitifs néerlandais et maîtres des XVIe et XVIIe siècles: Collection du château de Nijenrode. Sal cat. Maison Frederik Muller & Cie. Amsterdam, 10 July 1923: 6:10, no. 20, as by Pintoricchio.
1928
Venturi, Adolfo. “Ancora della biblioteca di Sir Robert Witt.” L’Arte 31, no. 25 (1928):204-205, fig. 11, captioned as by Pintoricchio but described as by Perugino.
1932
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932: 460, as by Pintoricchio.
1933
Venturi, Lionello. Italian Paintings in America. New York and Milan, 1933: 2:pl.332, as by Pintoricchio.
1936
Berenson, Bernard. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936: 395, as by Pintoricchio.
1940
Hentzen, A. “Neu erworbene und aus Provinzmuseen zurückgezogene Gemälde.” Berliner Museen. Berichte aus den Preussischen Kunstsammlungen. Beiblatt zum Jahrbuch der Preussischen Kunstsammlungen 61, no. 3 (1940): 30, as by Pintoricchio.
1941
Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 119, repro., as by Pintoricchio.
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 155-156, no. 405, as by Pintoricchio.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 247, repro. 169, as by Pintoricchio.
Shoolman, Regina, and Charles E. Slatkin. Enjoyment of Art in America: A Survey of the Permanent Collections of Paintings, Sculpture, Ceramics & Decorative Arts in American and Canadian Museums: Being an Introduction to the Masterpieces of Art from Prehistoric to Modern Times. Philadelphia and New York, 1942: 297, pl. 288, as by Pintoricchio.
1944
Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 35, repro.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 67, repro., as by Pintoricchio.
1952
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Painters of the Renaissance. London, 1952: pl. 303, as by Pintoricchio.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 97, repro., as by Pintoricchio.
1960
Carli, Enzo. Il Pintoricchio. Milan, 1960: 18, as by Pintoricchio.
1962
Zeri, Federico. “Eccentrici fiorentini – parte I.” Bollettino d’arte 4 (1962): 236 n. 2.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 103, as by Pintoricchio.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 91, repro., as by Pintoricchio.
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 116, fig. 284.
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:348, as by Pintoricchio, Bust of young man.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 226, repro.
1976
Fahy, Everett. Some Followers of Domenico Ghirlandajo. New York, 1976: 194.
1977
Ragghianti, Carlo L. “Lorenzo di Credi non Pinturicchio”. Critica d’Arte 42, nos. 154-156 (July – December 1977): 91-97, figs. 3, 4, as by Lorenzo di Credi.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:325-326; 2:pl. 236.
1980
Ragghianti, Carlo L. “Galleria di Washington.” Critica d’Arte 45, nos. 154-156 (1980): 219, as by Lorenzo di Credi.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 259, repro.
1992
Deimling, Barbara. “Provenienz und Auftraggeber eienes Gemäldes von der hand des Meisters von Santo Spirito.” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorisches Institutes in Florenz 36, Bd., H. 3 (1992): 399, fig. 3.
1994
Monbeig Goguel, Catherine. “A propos des dessins du ‘Maître de la femme voilée assise du Louvre.” Réflexion méthodologique en faveur du ‘Maître de Santo Spirito’ (Agnolo et/ou Donnino di Domenico del Mazziere?).” In Elizabeth Cropper, ed. Florentine Drawings at the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Papers from a Colloquium held at the Villa Spelman, Florence, 1992. Bologna, 1994: 123, 127, fig. 13.
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: 521-525, color repro.
2015
Brown, David Alan. "Looking Backward; Americans Collect Italian Renaissance Art." In Inge Reist, ed. A Market for Merchant Princes: Collecting Italian Renaissance Paintings in America (The Frick Collection Studies in the History of Art Collecting in America, 2). University Park, PA, 2015: 7.
Monbeig Goguel, Catherine. “For Agnolo di Donnino del Mazziere, the Maestro di Santo Spirito.” In Una Roman d’Elia, ed. Rethinking Renaissance Drawings: Essays in Honor of David McTavish. Montreal and Kingston, ON, 2015: 64, fig. 4.2.
Sarti, G., ed. Italian Masterpieces 14th and 15th centuries. Exh. cat., Galerie G. Sarti, Paris, 2015: 148.
2020
Zaninelli, Fulvia. "The Interesting Case of Alessandro Contini Bonacossi (1878-1955) and Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929)." In Florence, Berlin and Beyond. Late Nineteenth-Century Art Markets and Their Social Networks, ed. Lynn Catterson. Leiden, Boston, 2020: 286, fig. 8.5
2022
Nesi, Alessandro. Precisazioni, conferme e proposte per Donnino e Agnolo del Mazziere. Florence, 2022: 5.
Wikidata ID
Q20174689