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Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo

Portrait of a Knight, c. 1525

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 23

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 88.3 x 73.4 cm (34 3/4 x 28 7/8 in.)

framed: 110.5 x 94.9 x 8.3 cm (43 1/2 x 37 3/8 x 3 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1952.5.74

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo (artist) Brescian, c. 1480 - 1548 or after

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Provenance

Bartolommeo della Nave, Venice; sold 1638 through Basil Feilding, 2nd earl of Denbigh [d. 1675], to James Hamilton, 1st duke of Hamilton [d. 1649], Hamilton Palace, Strathclyde, Scotland.[1] Leopold Wilhelm, Archduke of Austria, Bishop of Passau and Governor of the Spanish Netherlands [1614-1662], Brussels and Vienna, by 1659;[2] by inheritance to Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I [1640-1705]; by descent to Holy Roman Emperors; by trade to the Princes of Liechtenstein, by 1805, Vienna, and later Vaduz;[3] sold 8 March 1951 through (Frederick Mont, Inc., New York) to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1952 to NGA.

[1] James Hamilton was beheaded in 1649; his collection was in the custody of the Earl of Denbigh before 1648, and the Earl was presumably responsible for its disposal.

[2] According to an inventory of the Archduke's collection, dated 14 July 1659, published by Adolf Berger, "Inventar der Kunstsammlung des Erzherzogs Leopold Wilhelm von Österreich," Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des Allerhochsten Kaiserhauses1 (1883): XCIII, no. 117.

[3] Erich V. Strohmer, Die Gemäldegalerie des Fürsten Liechtenstein in Wein, Vienna, 1943: 90, no. 70.

[4] According to Kress records in NGA curatorial files. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1672.

Associated Names

Bartolomeo della Nave
Fielding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, Basil
Hamilton, James, 1st Duke of
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Leopold I Holy Roman Emperor
Leopold Wilhelm, Archduke of Austria
Liechtenstein, Princes of
Mont, Inc., Frederick

Exhibition History

1948: Meisterwerke aus den Sammlungen des Fürsten von Lichtenstein, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, 1948, no. 29, repro.

1979: Berenson and the Connoisseurship of Italian Painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 93, repro.

1990: Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo: tra Foppa Giorgione e Caravaggio, Monastero S. Giulia, Brescia, 1990, no. I.27, repro and Schirn, Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (as Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo und die Renaissance zwischen Lombardei und Venetien), no. I.26, repro.

2007: Knights in Shining Armor: Myth and Reality 1450-1650, Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania, 2007, fig. 30.

Bibliography

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 163, repro.

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: 101, color repro. pl. 92.

1963: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 308, repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 121.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 108, repro.

1968: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 89, fig. 216.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 318, repro.

1979: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:416-418; 2:pl. 298.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 223, no. 275, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 369, repro.

2021: Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. "In Pursuit of Masterpieces: The National Gallery of Art's Acquisitions from The Prince of Liecthenstein." Artibus et historiae 42, no. 83 (2021): 317, 329 n. 15.