Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis
Portrait of a Young Man

Public Domain

ArtistAttributed to Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis (Italian (Milanese), c. 1455–after 1508)Italian (Milanese), c. 1455–after 1508

CultureItalian

Titles

Portrait of a Young Man

Datec. 1500

PlaceItaly

MediumOil on wood

DimensionsPanel: 21 3/8 × 15 1/4 in. (54.3 × 38.7 cm)
Frame: 39 1/8 × 30 3/4 × 5 in. (99.4 × 78.1 × 12.7 cm)

Credit LineThe Robert Lee Blaffer Memorial Collection, gift of Sarah Campbell Blaffer

Object number49.15

Not on view

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Department

Arts of Europe and the Mediterranean

Object Type

PAINTING

ProvenanceMarchese Cesare Pagani, Milan; by inheritance to Carlo Giuseppe Porro, Milan, 1706; Porro family of Santa Maria de Bicocca, Milan, until 1936; [Robert Frank, Ltd., London and New York, by 1936] owned jointly with [M. Knoedler and Co., New York, stock no. A1797, "unsold" December 3, 1936]; [M. Knoedler and Co., New York, December 31, 1942 until December, 1949] owned jointly with [Mercuria, 1949]; sold to Sarah Campbell Blaffer, December 1, 1949; The Robert Lee Blaffer Memorial Collection; given to MFAH by Sarah Campbell Blaffer, 1949 [1].

[1] Donated to the museum in installments on December 29,1949, December 28, 1950 and December 26, 1951.
Exhibition History"Anticha Pittura Lombarda Circolo d'Arte e di Alta Cultura," Milan, 1923.

"Italian Exhibition," Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January–March 1930.

"Masterpieces of Art," New York World's Fair, 1939.

"Leonardo da Vinci Loan Exhibition," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 3–July 17, 1949.

"Seventeen Masters of Painting," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1950.

"The Robert Lee Blaffer Memorials," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1953.

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