Portrait of a Humanist
Portrait of a Humanist
- Artist
- Sebastiano del Piombo
- Artist Dates
- 1485-1547
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Portrait of a Humanist
- Date
- c. 1520
- Medium
- oil on panel, transferred to hardboard
- Dimensions
- 134.7 x 101 x 3.5 cm (53 1/16 x 39 3/4 x 1 3/8 in)
- K Number
- K2115
- Repository
- National Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 1961.9.38
- Notes
Provenance
Ghizzi family, Naples; sold by 1821 to a Marquess of Lansdowne; Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, Bowood Hall, Wiltshire, England, by 1821; by inheritance to Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne [1816-1866], Bowood Hall; by inheritance to Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne [1845-1927], Bowood Hall, until at least 1914. [1] (Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London), on joint account with (M. Knoedler & Company, New York); and (Pinakos [Rudolf Heinemann], New York); sold 1955 to to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; [2] gift 1961 to NGA. [1] According to Mrs. Anna Jameson, _Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London_, 1844: 306-307. [2] Knoedler stock book no. 10, p. 115, no. A5476, and sales book no. 17, p. 155, M. Knoedler & Co. Records, Getty Research Institute (copies NGA curatorial files). Receipt dated 7 February 1955 from M. Knoedler & Co. in NGA curatorial files.