Matteo Olivieri (?)

Provenance

(Stefano Bardini [1836-1922], Florence); sold 1924 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York);[1] purchased 15 December 1936 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[2] gift 1937 to NGA. [1] A 16 November 1923 cable from the Duveen Paris office describes the _Matteo Olivieri_ and _Michele Oliveri_ and notes "Bardini wants 8000 Pounds pair." Payments were made on 21 January and 7 March 1924. This provenance is given in the Duveen Brothers records (Box 299, Folder 3, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles), and in _Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America_, New York, 1941: no. 41. The painting cannot be securely identified with any of those listed as belonging to Bardini by F. Scalia and C. De Benedictis, _Il Museo Bardini_, Florence, 1984: 1:121-125. [2] The original Duveen Brothers invoice is in Gallery Archives, copy in NGA curatorial files.

Matteo Olivieri (?)

Florentine 15th Century

1430s

Accession Number

1937.1.15

Medium

tempera (and oil?) on panel transferred to canvas

Dimensions

overall: 48 x 34.1 cm (18 7/8 x 13 7/16 in.) | framed: 77.5 x 64.5 x 7 cm (30 1/2 x 25 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection