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Portrait of a Young Man
Attributed to Antonello da Messinac. 1475/1480
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Portrait of a Young Man
- Creator: Attributed to Antonello da Messina
- Date Created: c. 1475/1480
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 33 x 24.8 cm (13 x 9 3/4 in.) framed: 62.2 x 56.2 x 14 cm (24 1/2 x 22 1/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: Palazzo Contarini-Mocenigo a S. Beneto, Venice, until the mid 19th century.[1] Princes Giovanelli, Venice, by 1871 until the early 1930s.[2] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); purchased 15 December 1936 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[3] gift 1937 to NGA. [1] According to Gianjacopo Fontana, _Venezia monumentale pittoresca_, Venice, 1863[?]: 258 (Reprint ed., Lino Moretti, Venice, 1967: 278). See also Otto Mündler, "The Travel Diaries of Otto Mündler," ed. Carol Togneri Dowd. _Walpole Society_ 51 (1985): 82, 257; he describes the painting, which he saw in November 1855, as "Fine portrait by Ant. da Messina, which has been barbarously cut and reduced on the sides." [2] Agostino D'Amico, "Antonello da Messina, le sue opere e l'invenzione della pittura ad olio." _Archivo Storico Messinese_ 5, no. 1-2 (1904); 113, reports that, according to a letter from Commendatore Barozzi dated 23 June 1902, the painting came from the Manfrin Collection toward the end of the eighteenth century. The NGA portrait is too large to be identifiable with a "testa" given to Antonello in the _Catalogo dei quadri esistenti nella Galleria Manfrin in Venezia_, Venice, 1856: no. 62 (27 x 31 cm). But a "testina di giovanetto" attributed to a Flemish artist, no. 5 in the same inventory (37 x 29 cm), if it were subsequently cut down as the NGA painting appears to be, could be a candidate. [3] The original Duveen Brothers invoice is in Gallery Archives, copy in NGA curatorial files. The painting is listed as from the collection of the Palazzo Giovanelli in Venice, and formerly in the Palace of Alvise Mocenigo at San Stae.
- Medium: tempera and oil on poplar panel
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