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Bearded Man with his Right Arm Raised
Giuseppe Porta, called Giuseppe Salviati · 1562/64
Provenance
Ownership history
- Baron Jan Gijsbert Verstolk van Soelen; sold, Amsterdam, Mar. 22, 1847, lot 147 (as Paolo Veronese), to Roos for Gerard Leembruggen Jzn.; sold, Amsterdam, Mar. 5–10, 1886, lot 896 (as Paolo Veronese) to John Malcolm, 1st Baron of Poltalloch (1805–1893); to his son-in-law, Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy (1845–1918); by descent to Geoffrey Malcolm Gathorne-Hardy (1878–1972); by descent to Robert Gathorne-Hardy (1902–1973); sold, Sotheby's, London, Apr. 28, 1976, lot 11. Private collection, Switzerland; sold, Christie's London, July 9, 2002, lot. 11. C.G. Boerner/Artemis, New York, Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, 2003; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London, Royal Academy of Arts, Drawings by Old Masters, 1953, cat. 123 (as Federico Zuccaro).
- Edinburgh, Merchants' Hall, Italian 16th-Century Drawings from British Private Collections, 1969, cat. 49 (anon. North Italian artist).
- London, Colnaghi, Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Mr. Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, 1971–72, cat. 30 (as Giuseppe Salviati).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 4 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, p. 17, fig. 2, p. 131, GC 13, traveled to New York, The Morgan Library, February 19 - June 6, 2021, and Berkeley CA, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 4 - November 28, 2021.
Literature
Published references
- Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy, Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings by the Old Masters in the Possession of the Hon. A.E. Gathorne-Hardy (Ballantyne, 1902), pp. 28–29, no. 51 (as Paolo Veronese).
- Terence Mullaly, "Italian Sixteenth-Century Drawings in Edinburgh," Burlington Magazine 111 (1969), p. 632, fig. 80 (as Leandro Bassano).
- Theodore Crombie, "Graphic Masterpieces", Apollo 94 (1971), p. 504, fig. 2 (as Giuseppe Salviati).
- David McTavish, Giuseppe Porta, called Giuseppe Salviati (Garland, 1981), pp. 356–57, no. 32, fig. 224.
- Scott Reyburn, "Art Market," Antique Trade Gazette (Aug. 24, 2002), p. 23 (ill.).
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