Portrait of a Young Artist (also, A Young Sculptor)
Portrait of a Young Artist (also, A Young Sculptor)
- Artist
- Giuseppe Ghislandi
- Artist Dates
- 1655-1743
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Portrait of a Young Artist (also, A Young Sculptor)
- Date
- c. 1735
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.2 x 61.6 cm (30 x 24-1/2 in)
- K Number
- K1641
- Repository
- University of Arizona Museum of Art
- Accession Number
- 1961.013.017
- Notes
Provenance
Dr. Cavaliere Giovanni Piccinelli, Seriate, Bergamo; Ercole Piccinelli, Seriate, Bergamo. (Ars Antiqua, New York); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 5 April 1949; gift to University of Arizona Museum of Art in 1961, no. 1961.013.017.
Catalogue Entry
Giuseppe Ghislandi
Portrait of a Young Artist (also, A Young Sculptor)
K1641
Tucson, Ariz., University of Arizona (61.115), since 1959. Canvas. 30 x 24 1/2 in. (76.2 x 61.6 cm.). Very good condition. A typical painting from Ghislandi's mature period,(1) probably about 1735, K1641 shows one of his favorite subjects, a young pupil. This boy is not dressed in a foreign costume, as is the one in K1766B, but as he might commonly be seen, in the artist's studio, surrounded by studio properties. The former title, The Young Sculptor,(2) may well be misleading; the two sculptured heads are likely models from which the young pupil practices drawing; his crayon rests on the mask at the left. Provenance: Dott. Cav. Giovanni Piccinelli, Seriate (Bergamo) –exhibited: 'Il Ritratto Italiano dal Caravaggio al Tiepolo,' Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, 1911, p. 164 of list published in 1911, and p. 150 of a large catalogue of the same exhibition published in 1927, as A Young Artist, by Ghislandi. Ercole Piccinelli, Seriate (Bergamo). Ars Antiqua, New York. Kress acquisition, 1949 –exhibited: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pa., 1950-53.
References
(1) K1641 is assigned to Ghislandi's maturity by W. E. Suida, loc. cit. in note 3, below. (2) Suida, in Philadelphia Museum Bulletin, XLVI, Autumn 1950, p. 18, as Ghislandi, The Young Sculptor.