Portrait of a Youth

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffioc. 1495/1498

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Title: Portrait of a Youth
Creator: Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
Date Created: c. 1495/1498
Physical Dimensions: overall: 46.8 x 34.8 cm (18 7/16 x 13 11/16 in.) framed: 66.7 x 54.3 x 6.7 cm (26 1/4 x 21 3/8 x 2 5/8 in.)
Provenance: Baron Gustave Salomon de Rothschild [1829-1911], Paris; possibly by inheritance to his son-in-law, Edward Albert Sassoon, 2nd bt. [1856-1912], London;[1] probably by inheritance to his son, Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon, 3rd bt. [d. 1939], London, until at least 1921.[2] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold to Ralph Harman [1873-1931] and Mary Batterman [d. 1951] Booth, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, by 1926;[3] gift 1946 to NGA. [1] According to the estate papers for Gustave de Rothschild, Boltraffio's "_Portrait d'un jeune homme_" hung in the gallery in his Paris house at 23 Avenue de Marigny. It does not seem to have been left to Edward Sassoon directly, but was part of a lot of furniture and objects "à tirer au sort" [to be drawn by lot] (see letter of 30 July 1998 from Tamsin Black, assistant archivist, The Rothschild Archive, in NGA curatorial files). [2] The painting was published in 1921 as being owned by Sir Philip Sassoon. [3] The painting was lent by the Booths to a 1926 exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Rights: CC0
Medium: oil on walnut panel

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