Portrait of Niccolo Fabri
Portrait of Niccolo Fabri
- Artist
- Vincenzo Catena
- Artist Dates
- c. 1470-1531
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Portrait of Niccolo Fabri
- Date
- c. 1510
- Medium
- oil on poplar panel
- Dimensions
- 47.3 x 42 cm (18-5/8 x 16-1/2 in)
- K Number
- K2071
- Repository
- Columbia Museum of Art
- Accession Number
- CMA 1962.13
- Notes
Provenance
(Julius Böhler, Lucerne) by 1948. (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955] Rome-Florence); sold to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation on 7 June 1954; gift to the Columbia Museum of Art in 1961, no. CMA 1962.13.
Catalogue Entry
Vincenzo Catena
Portrait of Niccolo Fabri
K2071
Columbia, S.C., Columbia Museum of Art (62-922), since 1962.1 Wood. 18 5/8 x 161/2 in. (47.3 x 42 cm.). Inscribed at upper right: NICOLAVS FABRIS MCCCCLX. Good condition except for abrasion in background; cleaned 1955. Attributions to Giovanni Bellini and Vittore Belliniano, as well as to Catena, have been suggested(2) and there are reasonable parallels to be found in documented paintings by each of these artists. For comparison with the least well-known of the three, Belliniano, portrait heads in the Martyrdom of St. Mark, of 1526, in the Accademia, Venice, are especially pertinent. The inscribed date, 1460, is obviously too early for the style of the portrait. It has been suggested that it may indicate that this is a posthumous portrait.(3) Also it has been assumed that the L was originally a fifth C(4) the resulting date, 1510, corresponds to the style of the painting. Provenance: Böhler's, Lucerne (1948).(5) Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1954.
References
(1) Catalogue by A. Contini Bonacossi, 1962, p. 91, as Catena. (2) K2071 has been attributed to Bellini by B. Berenson (Italian Pictures ... Venetian School, vol. I, 1957, p. 32), tentatively to Vittore Belliniano by F. Heinemann (Giovanni Bellini e i belliniani, vol. I, 1962, p. 199), to Catena by W. E. Suida (in ms. opinion), and tentatively to Catena by G. Robertson (verbally, 1963). (3) See catalogue cited in note 1, above. (4) Heinemann, loc. cit. in note 2, above. (5) Ibid.