Portrait of a Gentleman

Provenance

Casa Perego, Milan, by 1871, as _Portrait of Maximilian Sforza_ by Andrea Solario. Comm. Cristoforo Benigno Crespi, Milan, by 1900. Probably owned jointly by (Wildenstein & Co., London, New York and Paris) and (René Gimpel, Paris), from c. 1911; sold 1919 to Henry Goldman [1857-1937], New York, until at least 1930. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1939 to NGA. [1] See also the Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1669.

Portrait of a Gentleman

Bartolomeo Veneto

c. 1520

Accession Number

1939.1.257

Medium

oil on panel transferred to canvas

Dimensions

overall: 76.8 × 58.4 cm (30 1/4 × 23 in.) | framed: 107 × 89.22 × 8.57 cm (42 1/8 × 35 1/8 × 3 3/8 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection