Portrait of a Man as Saint George

Provenance

(Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Rome);[1] sold March 1932 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1937 to NGA. [1] The first reference to the painting, in a letter by Roberto Longhi of 1929, a copy of which is in NGA curatorial files, does not mention the painting’s location, although Longhi’s opinion may have been solicited by Contini Bonacossi. [2] The bill of sale that includes the painting, which is listed as _Portrait of a Man with Flag_ by Jacopo Tintoretto, is dated 4 March 1932; copy in NGA curatorial files. A handwritten annotation reads "on records as: Dosso Dossi or Jacopo Tintoretto or Francisco Mazzola." See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1706.

Portrait of a Man as Saint George

Caletti, Giuseppe

c. 1620s

Accession Number

1939.1.98

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 83.8 x 71.1 cm (33 x 28 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection