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Portrait of a Gentleman
Venetian · c. 1540
Provenance
Ownership history
- Pallavicini-Andrassy collection, Styria, Hungary [according to Carter 1927 and Art Digest 1930]; sold in the sale of the Pallavicini collection, Knight, Frank, and Rutley, London, May 27, 1927, no. 28, as Raphael, Portrait of a Papal Secretary, for £3,100 [according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles]. M. L. in W [according to the annotated sale catalogue cited below; Lloyd 1993 suggests that M. L. in W was the Mr. Lindemann to whom Max J. Friedländer wrote his attestation regarding the painting on September 20, 1925, in curatorial file]; sold Hugo Helbing, Frankfurt, June 12, 1928, no. 65, as Raphael, Portrait of a Papal Secretary, for 20,000 marks [price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Ryerson Library, Art Institute]. E. and A. Silberman Galleries, Vienna and New York, by 1928 [according to registrar’s records]; sold by Silberman to Chester D. Tripp, 1930, as Raphael [according to registrar’s records]. Chester D. Tripp (died 1974), Evanston, Illinois, and Chicago, 1930–74; at his death to his widow, Jane B. Tripp (died 1988); intermittently on loan to the Art Institute from 1930; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1988.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 125, as Raphael.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 54, as Raphael.
- New York, E. and A. Silbermann Galleries, Art Unites Nations, December 10–28, 1957, no. 7. as Raphael, The Parmesan.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Treasures of Chicago Collectors, 1961, no cat. no.
Literature
Published references
- “A. C. Carter on the Pallavicini Collection,” Art News 25, 28 (1927), p. 3.
- A. C. R. Carter, “Forthcoming Auctions: Pallavicini Collection and Others,” Burlington Magazine 50 (1927), advertising supplement, pp. li-lii.
- “Pallavicini Sale Catalogs Are Now Here,” Art News 25, 33 (1927), p. 2.
- “Murillo Leads in Pallavicini Sale Prices,” Art News 25, 35 (1927), p. 1.
- E. and A. Silberman Galleries, The Parmesan (Evangelista Tarascono parmigiano) by Raphael (New York, 1930), pp. 7–9, ill.
- “Another Raphael Work Revealed in This Country,” New York Herald Tribune, (March 22, 1930), p. 17, ill.
- “Raphael Portrait Sold,” The World (March 22, 1930), p. 6.
- “Chicago Collector Buys Raphael,” Art News 28, 25 (1930), p. 3, ill.
- “Raphael Painting Going to Chicago,” New York Times (March 22, 1930), p. 18.
- Eleanor Jewett, “Painting by Raphael Here; Story Is Told,” Chicago Daily Tribune (March 24, 1930), p. 33.
- Chicago Daily News (March 29, 1930), photogravure section, n. p., ill.
- Chicago Daily Times (April 15, 1930), pp. 16–17, ill.
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