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Artist
Bartolomeo VenetoItalian (Venetian), active 1502–1531, died 1531
Portrait of a Man
possibly 1512
Oil on wood
Panel: 27 7/8 × 20 1/2 in. (70.8 × 52.1 cm)
Frame: 36 3/8 × 29 3/8 × 3 in. (92.4 × 74.6 × 7.6 cm)
Frame: 36 3/8 × 29 3/8 × 3 in. (92.4 × 74.6 × 7.6 cm)
The Edith A. and Percy S. Straus Collection
44.573
ProvenanceCasa del Mayno collection, Milan, early 19th century; Collection of Sir George Lindsay Holford, Westonbirt, Gloucestershire, before 1927; [Thomas Agnew and Sons, New York, London, July 15, 1927, cat. no. 128]; Collection of Mrs. Edwin S. Bayer, Comtesse Sala, possibly 1927; [Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Company, Inc., New York, May 19, 1933]; Percy S. Straus, New York, June 27, 1933; bequeathed to MFAH, 1944.Comparative Images
Fig. 19.1. Bartolomeo Veneto, Portrait of a Gentleman, c. 1512, oil on canvas, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, inv. 875. Photograph courtesy of the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, MIBACT - Bibliotheca Hertziana, Istituto Max Planck for the History of Art/Enrico Fontolan
Fig. 19.2. Bartolomeo Veneto, Portrait of a Gentleman, Samuel H. Kress Collection, c. 1520, oil on panel transferred to canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Samuel H. Kress Collection, Photograph courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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