
Portrait of a Gentleman
Jacopo Negretti, called Palma Giovane · c. 1590
Provenance
Ownership history
- Asscher and Welker, London, to 1937 [according to letter of February 1, 1937, from Kenneth Clark to Asscher and Welker]. E. and A. Sliberman, New York, 1937; sold to Charles H. Worcester, November 4, 1937; given by him to the Art Institute, 1937.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Toledo Museum of Art, Four Centuries of Venetian Painting, 1940, no. 3.
- Venice, Palazzo Ducale, Jacopo Bassano, 1957, no. 8.
- Venice, Museo Correr, Palma il Giovane, 1548-1628, January 1-May 1, 1990, cat. 81.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Raphael and Titian: The Renaissance Portrait, December 15, 1999 - March 19, 2000, (no cat.).
- Bill Viola (b.1951), The Greeting, (video installation) The Art Institute of Chicago, October 13, 1999 to January 9, 2000.
Literature
Published references
- Daniel Canton Rich, Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings, Chicago, 1938, p. 11, no. 6A.
- R. Pallucchini, "Dipinti veneziani a Chicago, Detroit, Toledo e Hartford," Arte veneta 1 (1947), p. 148.
- R. Pallucchini, "commento alla mostra di Jacopo Bassano," Arte veneta 11 (1957), p. 116.
- Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, vol. 1, 1957, p. 17.
- E. Arslay, I Bassano, Milan, 1960, vol. 1, p. 336.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, pp. 18, 40 (ill.).
- Hans Huth, "Italienische Kunstwerke im Art Institute von Chicago, USA," in Miscellanea Bibliothecae Hertianae, Munich, 1961, p. 518.
- E. E. Lowinsky, "Problems in Adrian Willaert's Iconography," Aspects of Medieval and Renaissance Music: A Birthday Offering to Gustave Reese, ed. J. La Rue, New York, 1966, pp. 576, 588-594, pl. 22a.
- Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian paintings in North American public collections, Cambridge, Mass., 1972. pp. 18, 526, 571.
- W. R. Rearick, "The Portraits of Jacopo Bassano," Artibus et Historiae 1 (1980), p. 99, n. 3.
- S. Mason. Rinaldi, "Novità, ritrovamenti e restituzioni a Jacopop Palma il Giovane," Arte Veneta. 35 (1982), pp. 147-148, fig. 6.
- S. Mason Rinaldi, Palma il Giovane: L'opera completa, Milan, 1984, p. 80, no. 59, fig. 112.
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