Portrait of a Boy

Provenance

(Walter Schnackenberg, Munich), by April 1925.[1] (F. Kleinberger, Paris and New York), by 1927.[2] Private collection, New York.[3] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence), by 1929;[4] sold 26 June 1935 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[5] gift 1939 to NGA. [1] According to a hand-written notes by Bernard Berenson on the back of a photograph of the painting in the I Tatti archive in Florence (copy in NGA curatorial files). [2] Kleinberger lent the painting to a 1927 exhibition at The Lotos Club. [3] Raimond Van Marle, _The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting_, The Hague, 1931: 13:180, fig. 119, relates that he saw the painting "in a private collection in New York," but does not specify when. [4] An opinion written by Roberto Longhi and dated October 1929 was addressed to Contini Bonacossi (copy and translation in NGA curatorial files). [5] The bill of sale was for seven paintings and a number of decorative art objects; NGA 1939.1.179 was identified as "Florentine about 1475" (copy in NGA curatorial files). See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1662.

Portrait of a Boy

Biagio d'Antonio

c. 1476/1480

Accession Number

1939.1.179

Medium

oil and tempera on poplar panel

Dimensions

overall: 41.9 x 35.9 cm (16 1/2 x 14 1/8 in.) | framed: 57.5 x 52.1 x 6.2 cm (22 5/8 x 20 1/2 x 2 7/16 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection