Portrait of a Young Man

Provenance

Barberini Collection, Rome.[1] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Rome), by 1929.[2] purchased 1932 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1939 to NGA. [1] According to National Gallery of Art, _Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture_, Washington, D.C., 1941: 77. [2] According to _Il settecento italiano_, Exh. cat., Palazzo della Biennale, Venice, 1929: 48. [3] According to a typed notation in the Kress records, NGA curatorial files, and _An Exhibition of Italian Paintings Lent by Mr. Samuel H. Kress of New York to Museums, Colleges and Art Galleries_, 1st catalogue, 1932-1933; 2nd expanded catalogue, 1933-1935; see also The Kress Collection Digital Archives, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1717.

Portrait of a Young Man

Ghislandi, Giuseppe

after 1720

Accession Number

1939.1.102

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 73 x 56.5 cm (28 3/4 x 22 1/4 in.) | framed: 98 x 82.1 x 7.6 cm (38 9/16 x 32 5/16 x 3 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection