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Portrait of a Man (c. 1470)
Portrait of a Man (c. 1470)
Public Domain
Artist
Andrea Mantegna
Artist Dates
c. 1431-1506
Artist Nationality
Italian
Title
Portrait of a Man
Date
c. 1470
Medium
tempera on hardboard, transferred from canvas transferred from panel
Dimensions
24.2 x 19.1 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in)
K Number
K1709
Repository
National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1952.2.5
Notes

Provenance

Gaál, Balaton Földvár, Hungary, before 1906; [1] Dr. Ludwig Keleman, Budapest; sold 1929 by his widow to (Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., Paris and New York); [2] sold May 1950 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; [3] gift 1952 to NGA. [1] Fern Rusk Shapley, _Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century_, London, 1968: 25. [2] The sale by Keleman's widow is confirmed by Alfred Frankfurter in his documentation of the painting for Germain Seligman in 1938, copy in NGA curatorial files. [3] Germain Seligman proposed a sale to the Kress Foundation of five works of art, including Andrea Mantegna's "Portrait of Janus Pannonius," in a letter of 10 May 1950; the Foundation paid for them the following day (copy in NGA curatorial files).