Portrait of a Gentleman

1. Possibly Prince Brancaccio, Rome [according to a letter from Wilhelm von Bode to Scott and Fowles dated January 2, 1912; however the bill of sale from Scott and Fowles to Martin A. Ryerson dated April 13, 1912 states that the picture was “bought from the collection of Prince Piombino, Rome, about twenty years since,” copies in curatorial file]. William Beattie, Glasgow, by 1901 [see Armstrong 1901, p. 46]. Arthur T. Sulley, London, by 1910 [see letter from Bernard Berenson to Arthur T. Sulley dated October 23, 1910, in the Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago]. Scott and Fowles, New York, by 1912; sold by Scott and Fowles to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, 1912; on loan to the Art Institute from 1912; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, Lawrie and Co., Portraits and Pictures of the Early Italian School, November 1900, no. 12.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 116.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 47.
• New York, M. Knoedler and Co., Italian Renaissance Portraits, March 18–April 6, 1940, no. 18.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, October 1943, no cat.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Raphael and Titian: The Renaissance Portrait, December 15, 1999–March 19, 2000, no cat.
• Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence, May 29–September 5, 2005, no. 21.

• Walter Armstrong, “Early Italian Portraits,” Art Journal 53 (1901), pp. 46–47, ill.
• Drawings by Old Masters in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, intro. by S. A. Strong (London, 1902), p. 5.
• Bernard Berenson, The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, 3rd ed. (New York and London, 1909), p. 139.
• Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago, 1914), p. 208, no. 2097.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, and Architecture (Chicago, 1917), p. 164.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings (Chicago, 1920), p. 62.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings (Chicago, May 1922), p. 71.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings (Chicago, 1923), p. 71.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1925), p. 159, no. 2026.
• Rose Mary Fischkin, “Martin A. Ryerson Collection of Paintings and Sculpture, XIII to XVIII Century, Loaned to The Art Institute of Chicago,” (unpub. MS, 1926, Ryerson Library, The Art Institute of Chicago), pp. 23–24.
• Carlo Gamba, “Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio et Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio,” Dedalo 9 (1929), pp. 465–67, ill.
• Lionello Venturi, Pitture italiane in America (Milan, 1931), pl. CCCXXXVIII.

The Nativity with Saints

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of a Woman

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Annunciation

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of a Man

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of a Lady

Art Institute of Chicago

Head of a Bearded Man (recto) Sketches of Architectural Details (verso)

Art Institute of Chicago

Baptista Tornabuoni

Art Institute of Chicago

Museum holdings, not sale records. Auction results are only shown when a licensed price source is connected.