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Circle of Giovanni Bellini(Venice circa 1430-1516)Portrait of a gentleman said to be Paolo Morosini, bust-length, in black costume
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Circle of Giovanni Bellini (Venice circa 1430-1516)
Portrait of a gentleman said to be Paolo Morosini, bust-length, in black costume
indistinctly inscribed (on a slip of paper attached to the ledge)
oil on panel
64.9 x 49.5cm (25 9/16 x 19 1/2in).
indistinctly inscribed (on a slip of paper attached to the ledge)
oil on panel
64.9 x 49.5cm (25 9/16 x 19 1/2in).
Footnotes
Provenance
The Collection of Count Szapary, Budapest
The Collection of the Prince of Liechtenstein, Vienna
The Collection of Kurt Glogowski, Berlin,
The Collection of Leopold Koppel (died 1933), Berlin
Private Collection, The Hague, by 1936
The Collection of Misses Anne R. and Amy Putnam, San Diego by whom donated to
The Museum of Fine Arts, San Diego (inv. 40:1) by whom offered
Sale, Christie's, New York, 10 January 1990, lot 11
Private Collection, UK
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, The Exhibition of Ancient Italian Art in Dutch Collections, 1 July- 1 October 1934, no. 34 (lent by A.S, 's-Gravenhage)
Literature
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, London, 1932, p. 69
R. van Marle, Italian Schools of Painting, vol. XVII, The Hague, 1936, p. 318
N. S. Trivas, 'Lesser small known American art collections' in Apollo, June 1941, p. 137
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Venetian School, London, 1957, vol. I, p. 34 (as Bellini)
S. Bottari, Tutta la pittura di Giovanni Bellini, Milan, 1963, vol. II, p. 25, ill., pl. 53
ed. Rizzoli, L'opera completa di Giovanni Bellini detto Giambellino, Milan, 1969, p. 104, no. 163 (as Bellini)
B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, 1972, p. 23, p. 510 and p. 524 (as a portrait of Gentile Bellini(?))
F. Heinemann, Giovanni Bellini e i Belliniani, Venice, 1962, vol. I p. 77, no. 282a, vol. II, p. 416, fig. 465 (as possibly Marco Basaiti after Giovanni Bellini)
Saleroom notices
Please note that the present lot will be included in Peter Humfrey and Mauro Lucco's forthcoming publication on Giovanni Bellini as a work possibly attributable to Giovanni Bellini.
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