Portrait of a Boy
Portrait of a Boy
- Artist
- Follower of Bartolomeo Vivarini
- Artist Dates
- c. 1430/1432-c. 1491/1499
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Portrait of a Boy
- Date
- 1485-1500
- Medium
- tempera on panel
- Dimensions
- 26.7 x 21.6 cm (10-1/2 x 8-1/2)
- K Number
- K338
- Repository
- Allentown Art Museum
- Accession Number
- 1960.019.000
- Notes
Provenance
Dr. Gustavo Frizzoni [1840-1919], Milan; (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Rome and Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 10 July 1935 as Venetian Master; gift to the Allentown Art Museum in 1960, no. 1960.19.
Catalogue Entry
Follower of Bartolomeo Vivarini
Portrait of a Boy
K338
Allentown, Pa., Allentown Art Museum (60.19.KB), since 1960.(1) Wood. 9 X 7 in. (23 X 17.8 cm.). Fair condition; a few restorations; cleaned 1960. Although other artists – Jacopo da Valenza, Carpaccio, and Filippo Mazzola – have been cited in connection with K338, and a similarity to Andrea da Murano has been reasonably suggested, its attribution to Caselli is supported by its striking similarity to the heads of musical angels in Cristoforo's altarpiece signed and dated 1499 in the Gallery at Parma.(2) K338 also probably dates from the end of the fifteenth century. It seems to be, aside from the donor in a relgious painting, Caselli's only known work in portraiture. Provenance: G. Frizzoni, Bergamo. Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1935 – exhibited: 'Twentyfive Paintings from the Collection of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation,' University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz., 1951-60.(3)
References
(1) Catalogue by F. R. Shapley, 1960, p. 50, as Caselli. (2) K338 has been attributed to Jacopo da Valenza by B. Berenson (Italian Pictures ... Venetian School, vol. I, 1957, p. 95), to the Venetian School by F. M. Perkins and A. Venturi, to Filippo Mazzola by R. van Marle, to Carpaccio by G. Fiocco, and to Caselli by R. Longhi and W. E. Suida (in ms. opinions). F. Zeri (quoted in the Frick Art Reference Library) notes a close relationship to the paintings of Andrea da Murano; and F. Heinemann (Giovanni Bellini e i belliniani, vol. I, 1962, p. 308), judging from a reproduction, doubts the attribution to Caselli and (ibid., p. 285) thinks K338 is probably by a Romagnol artist. (3) Catalogue by W. E. Suida, 1951, no. 10, as Caselli.