Portrait of a Lady

1. Don Gaspar Méndez de Haro y Guzmán, Marqués del Carpio y Helice, viceroy of Naples (died 1687), Naples [his monogram, DGH. / li67 surmounted by a crown (initials in ligature), is painted on the reverse of the painting; see Civai 1990, pp. 62–64]; his estate, 1687–1704, [Civai 1990 suggests that the painting is the “ritratto di donna veneziana palmi 6 e 4 di Paol Veroniese” recorded in the 1692 inventory of Guzmán’s collection as no. 328]; Florentine creditors of Don Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán, by 1704, from whom presumably acquired by the Martelli family, Florence, inventories of 1712, 1771, and 1802–13 [see Civai 1990]; by descent to the brothers Niccolò, Carlo, and Ugolino Martelli, Florence [according to Civai 1990 who documents the painting in Martelli possession through an old photograph]; sold by them to Albert Harnish, 1910 [according to Civai 1990]. Mrs. Henry Osborne Havemeyer (died 1929); sold in her sale, American Art Association, New York, April 10, 1930, no. 104 (ill.), for $800, to Metropolitan Gallery, New York [price according to annotated sale catalogue in the Ryerson Library, Art Institute; buyer given in annotated sale catalogue at Knoedler, New York, according to a letter from Melissa De Medeiros to Mary Kuzniar dated April 14, 1991 in curatorial file]. Sold American Art Association, New York, 6 May 1937, lot 98, for $150 to Chester Dale; given to the Art Institute, 1946.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Chicago, Bonwit Teller, 1952, no. cat.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection, March 27–June 20, 1993, no. 278.

• Gaetan Ostoya, Les Anciens Maîtres et leurs oeuvres à Florence (Florence, 1884), p. 294.
• The H. O. Havemeyer Collection: Catalogue of Paintings, Prints, Sculpture and Objects of Art (Portland, Maine, 1931), p. 495.
• Frederick A. Sweet, “Portrait of a Lady by Veronese,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 41 (1947), pp. 2–4, cover ill.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 246.
• Guido Piovene and Remigio Marini, L’opera completa del Veronese, Classici dell’arte 20 (Milan, 1968), p. 132, no. 321, ill.
• Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 69, 531, 571.
• Terisio Pignatti, Veronese (Venice, 1976), vol. 1, p. 175, no. A48; vol. 2, fig. 761.
• Frances Weitzenhoffer, The Havemeyers: Impressionism Comes to America (New York, 1986), p. 256.
• Alessandra Civai, Dipinti e sculture in Casa Martelli: Storia di una collezione patrizia fiorentina dal Quattrocento all’Ottocento (Florence, 1990), pp. 64, 71, 113, 118, 138, fig. 28.
• Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 80–82, ill.
• Marcus B. Burke, Collections of Paintings in Madrid, 1601–1755 (Los Angeles, 1997), pp. 816, 828 n. 6.
• Alessandra Anselmi, “Il VII Marchese del Carpio da Roma a Napoli,” Paragone no. 683 (2007), p. 106.

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

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Madonna and Child with Angels

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Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard

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Christ Crowned with Thorns

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Warwick Castle: The East Front

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Allegory of the Planets and Continents

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Madonna and Child

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Saint Thecla Praying for the Plague-Stricken

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