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Jun 18, 2009

Portrait of a Man

c. 1510s

Bartolomeo Veneto

(Italian, 1531)

Italy, 16th century

Oil on wood, transferred to wood

Framed: 74.9 x 57.8 x 11.1 cm (29 1/2 x 22 3/4 x 4 3/8 in.); Unframed: 39.4 x 29.2 cm (15 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)

Bequest of James Parmelee 1940.539

Location

118 Italian Renaissance

Description

This young man is possibly a member of the Sforza household, the ruling family of Milan during the Renaissance. He wears a plaquette on his hat indicating his nobility and status. This medallion depicts an actual work by Andrea Riccio (1470–1532), an artist whose work is represented in the museum's collection. The medallion illustrates an allegory of fortune and virtue personified by a winged woman and a child.

Provenance

-1913

Baron Michele Lazzaroni [d- 1937], Rome, Italy and Paris, France, sold to Lord Duveen of Millbank

1913-1914

Lord Duveen of Millbank [1869-1939] City of Westminister, London, United Kingdom, sold to James Parmelee

1914-1940

James Parmelee [1855-1931] Washington DC by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1940-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Berenson, Bernard. Venetian Painting in America; The Fifteenth Century. New York, NY: F.F. Sherman, 1916. Reproduced: Fig 107

Francis, Henry S. "The Bequest of James Parmelee." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXVIII, no. 2 (February 1941): 16-21. Mentioned: p. 16-17; Reproduced: p. 21

Duveen Brothers, Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner, and Joseph Duveen Duveen. A Catalogue of Early Italian Paintings: Exhibited at the Duveen Galleries, New York, April to May, 1924. New York, NY: Priv. print,1926. Reproduced: no. 45

Venturi, Lionello. Pitture italiane in America. Milano, Italy: U. Hoepli, 1931. Reproduced: pl. CCCLXIV

Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places. Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1932. Rreproduced: p. 52

Art Institute of Chicago, and Daniel Catton Rich. Catalogue of a Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Lent from the American Collections. Chicago, IL: [Printed at the Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Company], 1933. Reproduced: no. 102

Venturi, Lionello. Italian Paintings in America. New York, NY: E. Wyhe, 1933. Reproduced: p. 477, vol. III

Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition : June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1936. Reproduced: no. 173

Masterworks of Five Centuries. San Francisco, CA : Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939. Reproduced: no. 19, pl. 19

Milliken, William M. "A Hat Jewel of the Renaissance." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXVI, no. 7 (July 1939): 121-122. Mentioned: p. 121-122

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Reproduced: p. 446; Mentioned: p. 447

Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America: A Catalogue Raisonné with Three Hundred Illustrations of Paintings by the Great Masters, Which Have Passed Through the House of Duveen. New York, NY: William Bradford Press, 1941. Reproduced: pl. 146

Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance; A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places. Venetian School. New York, NY: Phaidon Publishers; distributed by Garden City Books, 1957. Reproduced: vol. I, II

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 408 archive.org

Cappi Bentivegna, Ferruccia. Abbigliamento e costume nella pittura italiana; rinascimento. Roma, Italy: Bestetti, Edizioni d'arte, 1962. Reproduced: p. 191, fig. 257

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 88 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 88 archive.org

Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. Mentioned: p. 17, 524, 573

Dizionario enciclopedico Bolaffi dei pittori e degli incisori italiani dall'XI al XX secolo. Torino, Italy: G. Bolaffi, 1972. Reproduced: P. 386, vol. I, fig. 377;

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 102 archive.org

Pagnotta, Laura, and Bartolomeo Veneto. Bartolomeo Veneto: l'opera completa. Firenze, Italy: Centro Di, 1997. Reproduced: p. 208-209, no. 25, fig. 64

Pagnotta, Laura. The Portraits of Bartolomeo Veneto. 2002. Mentioned: p. 62; Reroduced: p. 47, plate 8.

Brusatin, Manlio. Il Cappello di Leonardo: Storie Sulla Forma delle Immagini. Venezia: Marsilio, aprile 2019. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 36-38, no. 9

Heinemann, Fritz, and Josef Nolte. Giovanni Bellini e i Belliniani. Venezia, Italy: N. Pozza, 1962. Mentioned: p. 78; Reproduced: p.

Exhibition history

Exhibition of Early Italian Paintings. Duveen Gallery, New York, NY (1914).

The Century of Progress Exhibition. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (June 1-November 1, 1933).

Masterworks of Five Centuries. Golden Gate International Exhibition, San Francisco, CA (1939).

The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).

The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).

The Portraits of Bartolomeo Veneto. Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (organizer) (May 4-August 31, 2002).

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