1962.159: Portrait of a Man in Armor

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1962.159

People

Marco Basaiti, Italian (1496 - 1530 Venice)

Title

Portrait of a Man in Armor

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1515

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/228228

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

73.7 x 55.9 cm (29 x 22 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Julius Böhler, Munich, 1901]. [1] Graf Preti, Vienna. W. B. Patterson, London, 1904. Dr. Paul Mersch, Paris, sold [through Keller & Reiner's, Berlin, March 1-2, 1905, lot 66 as Cavazolla]. [Christie's, London, March 14, 1924, lot 80], sold; to Layton. Conte Avogli-Trotti, Paris. Contini Bonacossi, Rome and Florence, sold; to Samuel H. Kress, New York, 1930, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1962

Notes
[1] Böhler is listed as the owner in 1901. See "Offizieller Katalog der Ausstellung von Mesiterwerken der Renaissance..."

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of The Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Accession Year

1962

Object Number

1962.159

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Offizieller Katalog der Ausstellung von Meisterwerken der Renaissance aus Privatbesitz veranstaltet vom Verein bildender Künstler Münchens "Succession" E. V., exh. cat., Verlag des Vereins bildener Künstler Münchens "Secession" (Munich, 1901), p. 5, cat. no. 35, as by Giorgione
• Roger Fry, Portrait of a Knight by Marco Basaiti (?) Belonging to Mr. W. B. Paterson, The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs (September 1904), Vol. 5, No. 18, pp. 574, 579, repr. p. 579 as plate III
• Katalog von Ölgemäladen alte Meister: Kollection Dr. Paul Mersch, Paris, auct. cat., Keller und Reiner (Berlin, March 1-2, 1905), p. 25, lot 66, repr. as tafel 19
• J. A. Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in North Italy, ed. Tancred Borenius, Charles Scribner & Sons (New York, 1912), Vol. I, p. 276n, no. 6
• Raimond Van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, M. Nijhoff Publishers (The Hague, 1923-1938), Vol. 17, p. 309
• Giuseppe Fiocco, Pier Maria Pennacchi, Rivista del R. Istituto d'archeologia e storia dell'arte (1929), Vol. 1, No. 7, p. 130, repr. as fig. 35
• Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance; A List of the Principal Artists and their Works, with an Index of Places, Venetian School, Phaidon Press (London, 1957), Vol. I, p. 14
• Dr. Fritz Heinemann, Giovanni Bellini e i belliniani, Neri Pozza Editore (Venice, 1962), p. 301, no MB. 99
• Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1972), p. 17
• Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)

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