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Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Portrait of a Young Man, c. 1615

Not on View

Medium

black and red chalk heightened with white chalk

Dimensions

overall: 31.7 x 23.1 cm (12 1/2 x 9 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1971.66.1

Artists / Makers

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (artist) Roman, 1598 - 1680

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Inscription

in unknown hand, lower right: da Cav. Bernini

Provenance

(Wildenstein and Co., New York); Mr. [d. 1970] and Mrs. Lester Francis Avnet, Great Neck, Long Island, NY; purchased 19 October 1971 by NGA.

Associated Names

Avnet, Lester F., Estate of
Wildenstein & Co., Inc.

Exhibition History

1958: A Comprehensive Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolors, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1958, no. 14 (checklist).

1967: Drawings from New York Collections, II. The Seventeenth Century in Italy, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1967, no. 67 (Felice Stampfle and Jacob Bean)

1968: Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Lester Francis Avnet, circulated by the American Federation of Arts, New York, 1968, no. 4 (reproduced on the cover).

1974: NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 33.

1976: Old Master Drawings from American Collections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976, no. 118 (Ebria Feinblatt).

1978: Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 70.

1983: Italian Portrait Drawings, 1400-1800, from North American Collections. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN, and elsewhere, 1983-1984, 25 (Adelheid Gealt).

Bibliography

1958: "Reviews and Previews," Art News 57 (Summer 1958): 17.

1967: Fagiolo dell'Arco, Maurizio and Marcello. Bernini: una introduzione al gran teatro del barocco. Rome, 1967: 248c.

1968: Bennett, Mary Lee. Drawings from the Collection of David Daniels. Exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1968: under no. 7.

1969: Zeri, Federico. "Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Un marmo dimenticato e un disegno." Paragone 9, no. 115 (1969): 63-64, pl. 42.

1971: Dessins français et italiens du XVIe et du XVIIe siècle dans les collections privées françaises. Exh. cat. Galerie Claude Aubry, Paris, 1971: under no. 13.

1971: Harris, Ann Sutherland, ed. Selected Drawings of Gian Lorenzo Bernini. New York, 1971: vii, xiv, no. 9.

1981: Martinelli, Valentino. Bernini disegni. Florence, 1981: VII.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 671, no. 1070, color repro.

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