- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1930.187
- People
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Attributed to Altobello Melone, Italian (c. 1480/5 - c. 1540)
Previously attributed to Jacopo Palma (called il Vecchio), Italian (c. 1479 - 1528)
- Title
- Portrait of a Young Man
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Letter
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- c. 1527-1528
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lombardy, Cremona
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/231538
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 54 x 39.4 cm (21 1/4 x 15 1/2 in.)
frame: 79 x 63.5 cm (31 1/8 x 25 in.)
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Nettie G. Naumburg
- Accession Year
- 1930
- Object Number
- 1930.187
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works, with an index of places, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1932), p. 373 [as Moretto da Brescia]
Bernard Berenson, Pitture Italiane del Rinascimento: Catalogo dei Principali Artisti e delle Loro Opere con un Indice dei Luoghi, Ulrico Hoepli (Milan, 1936), p. 321 [as Moretto da Brescia]
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. 155 [as by Jacopo Palma]
Jonathan Bober, I Campi e la cultura artistica cremonese del Cinquecento, Arte Lombarda: Rivista di Storia dell' Arte, Vita e Pensiero – Pubblicazioni dell’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (1986), no. 76/77, 1-2, pp. 153-162, repr. as fig. 3 on p. 155
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), pp. 120, 328, repr. b/w cat. no. 666
Carlo Del Bravo, Bellezza e Pensiero, Casa Editrice Le Lettere (Florence, 1997), p. 127, repr. as fig. 35
Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo, Labirinti del cuore: Giorgione e le stagioni del sentimento tra Venezia e Roma, exh. cat., arte'm (Naples, 2017), repr. as fig. 3 on p. 91
- Exhibition History
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Art of the Renaissance in Lombardy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/28/1988 - 07/24/1988
Landmarks of World Art and Architecture, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2012 - 01/19/2013
- Related Works
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