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Andrea Mantegna

Portrait of a Man, c. 1470

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 13

Medium

tempera on hardboard transferred from canvas transferred from panel

Dimensions

overall: 24.2 x 19.1 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)

framed: 37.6 x 32.5 x 3.2 cm (14 13/16 x 12 13/16 x 1 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1952.2.5

Artists / Makers

Andrea Mantegna (artist) Paduan, c. 1431 - 1506

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Provenance

Gaál, Balaton Földvár, Hungary, before 1906;[1] Dr. Ludwig Keleman, Budapest; sold 1929 by his widow to (Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., Paris and New York);[2] sold May 1950 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1952 to NGA.

[1] Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century, London, 1968: 25.

[2] The sale by Keleman's widow is confirmed by Alfred Frankfurter in his documentation of the painting for Germain Seligman in 1938, copy in NGA curatorial files.

[3] Germain Seligman proposed a sale to the Kress Foundation of five works of art, including Andrea Mantegna's "Portrait of Janus Pannonius," in a letter of 10 May 1950; the Foundation paid for them the following day (copy in NGA curatorial files, see also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1691).

Associated Names

Gaál
Keleman, Ludwig, Dr.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Seligmann & Cie., Jacques

Exhibition History

1939: Masterpieces of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300-1800, New York World's Fair, 1939, no. 233, as Portrait of Janus Pannonius (Presumed)

1941: Twenty-Second Loan Exhibition of Old Masters. Masterpieces of Art from European and American Collections, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1941, no. 39, as Portrait of Janus Pannonius (Presumed).

1949: Early European Paintings, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, 1949, no. 19, as Assumed Portrait of James Pannonius.

1979: Paintings of Italian Masters from the Collections of U.S.A. Museums, State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad; Pushkin Museum, Moscow; The Kiev Museum of Western and Eastern Art, 1979 (organized by the Armand Hammer Foundation, Los Angeles).

1992: Andrea Mantegna, Royal Academy of Arts, London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992, no. 99, repro. (shown only in New York).

2006: Mantegna a Mantova, 1460-1506, Fruttiere di Palazzo Te, Mantua, 2006-2007, no. 1, repro.

2008: Mantegna, 1431-1506, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2008-2009, no. 29, repro.

2019: Andrea Mantegna: Riviere l'antico, costruire il moderno, Palazzo Madama, Turin, 2019-2020, no. II.6, repro.

Bibliography

1951: Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1945-1951. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 70, no. 24, repro.

1952: Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Interpreting Masterpieces: Twenty-four Paintings from the Kress Collection." Art News Annual 16 (1952): 91-92, repro. 88

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 131, repro.

1961: Seligman, Germain. Merchants of Art: 1880-1960, Eighty Years of Professional Collecting. New York, 1961: repro. pl. 105.

1961: Walker, John, Guy Emerson, and Charles Seymour. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 46-48, color repro.

1962: Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. Treasures from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1962: 22, color repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 82.

1966: Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:68-69, color repro.

1968: Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:242.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 73, repro.

1968: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 24-25, fig. 67.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 214, repro.

1979: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:297-298; 2:pl. 211.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 114, no. 92, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 248, repro.

1994: Conti, Alessandro. “Giovanni nella bottega di Jacopo Bellini.” In Pierre Rosenberg, Cécile Scailliérez, and Dominique Thiébaut, eds. Hommage à Michel Laclotte. Études sur la peinture du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance. Milan and Pars, 1994: 262-263, fig. 260, as by Giovanni Bellini.

2003: Boskovits, Miklós, and David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003: 432-434, color repro.

2004: Salmazo, Alberta De Nicolò. Andrea Mantegna. Milan, 2004: 269, fig. 16, as Attributed to Andrea Mantegna.

2004: Santucci, Paola. Su Andrea Mantegna. Naples, 2004: 73.

2005: Agosti, Giovanni. Su Mantegna. Milan, 2005: 15, fig. 22.

2006: Banzato, Davide, Alberta De Nicolò Salmazo, and Anna Maria Spiazzi, eds. Mantegna e Padova, 1445-1460. Exh. cat. Musei civici agli Eremitani, Padua. Milan, 2006: 222..

2013: Lucco, Mauro. Mantegna. Milan, 2013: 186, 189, fig. 7.