Provenance
Probably Del Nero family, Florence, and, by descent, to Baron Cerbone Del Nero [1756-1816];[1] by inheritance to his widow, Ottavia Torrigiani [1758-1825], and her brother, Marquis Pietro Torrigiani [1773-1848], Palazzo Torrigiani (formerly Del Nero), Florence;[2] by inheritance to his son, Marquis Luigi Torrigiani [1804-1869], Palazzo Torrigiani;[3] by inheritance to one of his sons, probably Raffaele Torrigiani [1853-1927], Palazzo Torrigiani;[4] acquired by (Charles Fairfax Murray, London and Florence) on joint account with (Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London);[5] sold 1896 to Rodolphe Kann [1846-1905], Paris;[6] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York) and (Nathan Wildenstein, Paris);[7] sold 1907 to J. Pierpont Morgan [1837-1913], New York;[8] by inheritance to his son, J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr. [1867-1943], New York; on consignment 1935 with (M. Knoedler & Co., New York and London);[9] purchased February 1935 by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; deeded 1 May 1937 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[10] gift 1937 to NGA.
Associated Names
Agnew & Sons, Ltd., ThomasDel Nero, Cerbone, Baron
Del Nero, Ottavia
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Kann, Rodolphe
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
Mellon, Andrew W.
Morgan, Jr., John Pierpont
Morgan, Sr., J. Pierpont
Murray, Charles Fairfax
Torrigiani, Luigi, Marquis
Torrigiani, Pietro, Marquis
Torrigiani, Raffaele
Wildenstein & Co., Inc.
Exhibition History
- 1917
- Loan Exhibition of Italian Primitives, F. Kleinberger Galleries, New York, 1917, no. 21, repro.
- 1920
- Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1920, unnumbered catalogue.
- 1923
- Loan Exhibition of the Arts of the Italian Renaissance, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1923, no. 1.
- 1924
- Loan Exhibition of Important Early Italian Paintings in the Possession of Notable American Collectors, Duveen Brothers, New York, 1924, no. 32 (no. 8 in illustrated 1926 version of catalogue).
- 1935
- Fifteenth Century Portraits, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1935, no. 5, repro.
- 1936
- The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition, 1936, no. 118.
- 1979
- Berenson and the Connoisseurship of Italian Painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 110, repro.
- 2011
- The Portrait in Renaissance Italy: From Masaccio to Bellini, Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2011-2012, no. 21, repro.
Bibliography
- 1864
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- 1869
- Crowe, Joseph Archer, and Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle. Geschichte der italienischen Malerei. 6 vols. Leipzig, 1869-1876: 3(1870):137, as by the Pollaiuolo brothers.
- 1886
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- 1896
- Berenson, Bernard. The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance: with an index to their works. New York, 1896: 109.
- 1900
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- 1900
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- 1909
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- 1923
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- 1930
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- 1932
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- 1933
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- 1936
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- 1936
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- 1937
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- 1937
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- 1938
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- 1938
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- 1938
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- 1939
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- 1941
- Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 55, repro.
- 1941
- Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 157-158, no. 17, as by Antonio del Pollaiuolo.
- 1941
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- 1942
- Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 239, repro. 171, as by Antonio del Pollaiuolo.
- 1943
- Richter, George M. Andrea del Castago. Chicago, 1943: 20, pl. 54.
- 1944
- Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 36, color repro., as by Antonio del Pollaiuolo.
- 1949
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- 1951
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- 1956
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- 1957
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- 1961
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- 1963
- Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Florentine School. 2 vols. London, 1963: 1:47.
- 1963
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 299, repro.
- 1965
- Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 24.
- 1966
- Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:38, color repro.
- 1966
- Pope-Hennessy, John. The Portrait in the Renaissance. London and New York, 1966: 28, 29, 306 n. 41, fig. 26.
- 1967
- Bellosi, Luciano. "Intorno ad Andrea del Castagno." Paragone 18, no. 211 (1967): 9.
- 1968
- Gandolfo, Giampaolo et al. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Great Museums of the World. New York, 1968: 27-28, color repro.
- 1968
- Gilbert, Creighton. “The Renaissance Portrait.” Review of John Pope-Hennessy, The Portrait in the Renaissance (1963). The Burlington Magazine 110, no. 782 (May 1968): 281-282, 285 n. 21.
- 1968
- National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 17, repro.
- 1971
- Zeri, Federico, with Elizabeth Gardner. Italian Paintings. A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Florentine School. New York, 1971: 146.
- 1972
- Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 7, 645.
- 1975
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 58, repro.
- 1976
- Hatfield, Rab. Botticelli’s Uffizi “Adoration”: A study in pictorial content. Princeton, 1976: 72 n. 16.
- 1979
- Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: 1:127-129; 2:pl. 88.
- 1979
- Watson, Ross. The National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1979: 22, pl. 5.
- 1980
- Ragghianti, Carlo L. “Galleria di Washington.” Critica d’Arte 45, nos. 154-156 (1980): 218, as by Botticelli.
- 1980
- Wohl, Hellmut. The Paintings of Domenico Veneziano. Oxford, 1980: 175, pl. 15.
- 1983
- Bellosi, Luciano. "Andrea del Castagno." In Günter Meissner, ed. Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon: Die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker. 3 vols. Leipzig, 1983-1990: 2(1986):984, 986.
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 76, no. 24, color repro.
- 1985
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 77, repro.
- 1985
- Mündler, Otto. "The Travel Diaries of Otto Mündler." Ed. Carol Togneri Dowd. Walpole Society 51 (1985): 132, 310.
- 1986
- Frulli, Cristina. "Andrea del Castagno/Andrea di Bartolo di Simone." In Federico Zeri, ed. La pittura in Italia. Il Quattrocento. 2 vols. Milan, 1986: 2:556.
- 1990
- Campbell, Lorne. Renaissance Portraits: European Portrait-Painting in the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries. New Haven, 1990: 86, 120, 228, 232, pl. 248.
- 1992
- Petrioli Tofani, Annamaria, ed. Il disegno fiorentino del tempo di Lorenzo il Magnifico. Exh. cat. Galleria degli Uffizi, Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Florence, 1992: 97.
- 1993
- Gagliardi, Jacques. La conquête de la peinture: L’Europe des ateliers du XIIIe au XVe siècle. Paris, 1993: 378, fig. 443.
- 1996
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- 1996
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- 1997
- Boskovits, Miklós. “Studi sul ritratto fiorentino quattrocentesco – II.” Arte Cristiana 85, no. 782 (1997): 336-338, fig. 17, as by Piero del Pollaiuolo.
- 1997
- Boskovits, Miklós. “Studi sul ritratto fiorentino quattrocentesco. Parte II” Arte Cristiana 85, no. 782 (September-October 1997): 336-339, 341-342 nn. 47, 48, 49, 50, 56, figs. 17, 19, as by Piero del Pollaiuolo.
- 1999
- Bartoli, Roberta. Biagio d’Antonio. Milan, 1999: 38, as Formerly Attributed to Andrea del Castagno.
- 1999
- Cecchi, Alessandro. "The Conservation of Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo's Altar-piece for the Cardinal of Portugal's Chapel." The Burlington Magazine 141, no. 1141 (February 1999): 84 n. 24.
- 2000
- Fahy, Everett. Dipinti, disegni, miniature, stampe: L'Archivio storico fotografico di Stefano Bardini. Florence, 2000: 7, 15, 41, 198, 409, no. 307, repro., as by Piero del Pollaiuolo.
- 2000
- Wright, Alison. “The Memory of Faces: Choices in Portraiture.” In Giovanni Ciappelli and Patricia Lee Rubin, eds. Art, Memory, and Family in Renaissance Florence. Cambridge, 2000: 98, fig. 18.
- 2003
- Boskovits, Miklós, David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2003: 588-595, color repro., as Attributed to Piero del Pollaiuolo.
- 2004
- Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 18, no 11, color repro.
- 2004
- Nuttall, Paula. From Flanders to Florence: The Impact of Netherlandish Painting, 1400-1500. New Haven and London, 2004: 214-215, fig. 231.
- 2005
- Wright, Alison. The Pollaiuolo Brothers: The Arts of Florence and Rome. New Haven and London, 2005: 133, fig. 102.
- 2006
- Fahy, Everett. "Early Italian paintings in Washington and Philadelphia." The Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1241 (August 2006): 539, as Attributed to Piero del Pollaiuolo.
- 2006
- Körner, Hans. Botticelli. Cologne, 2006: 73, fig. 75.
- 2007
- Tartuferi, Angelo. “I Pollaiolo agli Uffizi e oltre: osservazioni e proposte.” In Antonio Naldi and Angelo Tartuferi, eds. La stanza dei Pollaiolo: i restauri, una mostra, un nuovo ordinamento. Exh. cat. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, 2007: 21-22, 24, fig. 5, as by Piero del Pollaiuolo.
- 2009
- Schumacher, Andreas, et al. Botticelli: Likeness, Myth, Devotion. Exh. cat. Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 2009: 27, fig. 13, as by Piero del Pollaiuolo (?).
- 2010
- Tartuferi, Angelo. I Pollaiolo: la pittura. Florence, 2010: 16, 18, as by Piero del Pollaiuolo.
- 2011
- Boskovits, Miklós, ed. The Alana Collection, Newark, Delaware, USA. Vol. II: Italian Paintings and Sculptures from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century. Florence, 2011: 88, as by Piero del Pollaiuolo.
- 2011
- Johnson, Ken. “Getting Personal.” New York Times 161, no. 55,628 (December 23, 2011): C27, C30, color repro.
- 2012
- Butterfield, Andrew. "They Clamor for Our Attention." (Review of The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini, Berlin and New York, 2011-2012.) The New York Review of Books 59, no. 4 (March 8, 2012): 10, color repro.
- 2015
- Dunlop, Anne. Andrea del Castagno and the Limits of Painting. Turnhout, 2015: 28, 141 n. 10, 147 n. 83, 2-3, fig. 6.
- 2015
- Tonkovich, Jennifer. “Discovering the Renaissance: Pierpont Morgan’s Shift to Collecting Italian Old Masters.” In Inge Reist, ed. A Market for Merchant Princes: Collecting Italian Renaissance Paintings in America (The Frick Collection Studies in the History of Art Collecting in America, 2). University Park, PA, 2015: 43.
- 2016
- Madersbach, Lukas. "'fatto alla spera'? Das Porträt des Leon Battista Alberti aus den Orti Oricellari." Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 58, no. 3 (2016, published February 2017): 319-347, esp. 337 fig. 16.
- 2017
- Schumacher, Andreas, ed. Florentiner Malerei. Alte Pinakothek: Die Gemälde des 14. bis 16. Jahrhunderts. Munich, 2017: 322, 323, 324, fig. 19.4, as by Andrea del Castagno or Piero del Pollaiuolo.
- 2018
- Kranz, Annette. “The Portrait in the Florentine Quattrocento.” In Andreas Schumacher, ed. Florence and its Painters: From Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci. Exh. cat. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, 2018: 78-79, fig. 6, as Attributed to Andrea del Castagno.
- 2018
- Schumacher, Andreas, ed. Florence and its Painters: From Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci. Exh. cat. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, 2018: 294, 300.
- 2019
- Zambrano, Patrizia. "Sandro Botticelli and the birth of modern portraiture." In Ana Debenedetti and Caroline Elam, eds. Botticelli Past and Present. London, 2019: 11-13, 15, fig. 1.2, as by Piero del Pollaiuolo.
- 2023
- Tartuferi, Angelo. “Piero del Pollaiolo, Sant’Antonino ai piedi del Crocifisso: una nuova leggibilità per un capolavoro d’arte e di devozione.” Quaderni del Museo di San Marco, no. 5 (2023): 26, 36, fig. 7, as by Piero del Pollaiuolo.
- 2024
- Rath, Markus. "Grundmuster: Ausdrucksfunktionen des monochromen Hintergrundes im Renaissanceporträt" Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 87, no. 1 (2024): 97, fig. 11.
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