Portrait of a Musician

1. Probably Prince Johann II (died 1929), Liechtenstein, Vienna and Vaduz, acquired between 1873 and 1880 [according to an email to Margaret Crosland of September 12, 2013, from Arthur Stögmann, archivist of the Liechtenstein Princely Collections, who explains that the painting was acquired before 1880, based on a note in an inventory of 1900; it does not appear in the 1873 edition of Fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Gemäldegalerie]; probably by descent to Prince Franz Josef II, Liechtenstein; sold to Wildenstein and Co., New York, in 1961 [according to a letter of August 4, 1977, to Susan Wise from Reinhold Baumstark, then director of the Liechtenstein collection, copy in curatorial file]; sold on February 5, 1962, to the Art Institute of Chicago for $99,500.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Vienna, Künstlerhaus, Katalog der Ausstellung anlässlich der Centenarfeier Domenico Cimarosa’s, 1901, no. 1, as a portrait of Domenico Cimarosa, attributed to Pietro Longhi (?).
• Florence, Palazzo Vecchio, Mostra del ritratto italiano: dalla fine del sec. XVI all’anno 1861, March – July, 1911, no. 50, as a portrait of Cimarosa, attributed to Alessandro Longhi.
• Novara, Instituto Geografico de Agostini, La pittura italiano del settecento, 1942, no. 75, as a portrait of Domenico Cimarosa, attributed to Alessandro Longhi.
• Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, Meisterwerke aus den Sammlungen des Fürsten von Liechtenstein, June 5 - October 31, 1948, no. 46, as a portrait of Domenico Cimarosa, attributed to Alessandro Longhi.
• Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century: Rococo to Romanticism, September 19 – November 8, 1970, no. 26, as a portrait of a musician, attributed to Alessandro Longhi; traveled to Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Art, December 3, 1970 - January 10, 1971; Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, February 7 – March 21, 1971.
• Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, European Portraits 1600-1900 in the Art Institute of Chicago, July 8 – September 11, 1978, no. 7, as an unknown sitter, attributed to Jacopo Amigoni.
• Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Art Museum, A Medley of Images: Art in the Age of Mozart, October 18 – November 20, 1991, no cat. no., as a portrait of a musician, attributed to Jacopo Amigoni.

• Fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Gemäldegalerie, Katalog der Fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Bilder-Galerie im Gartenpalais der Rossau zu Wien (Vienna, 1885), no. 223, p. 32.
• Wilhelm Bode, Die Fürstlich Liechtenstein’sche Galerie in Wien (Vienna, 1896), p. 80.
• Aldo Ravà, Pietro Longhi (Bergamo, 1909), pp. 52, 132, ill.
• Ricciotti Bratti, “Ritratti di Pietro e di Alessandro Longhi,” Arte Nostra, nos. 1-2 (1910), pp. 25-26, ill.
• Gustave Soulier, “Correspondance d’Italie: Le portrait italien à l’exposition de Florence,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, ser. 4, vol. 6 (1911), p. 76.
• Nello Tarchiani, “La Mostra del ritratto italiano: dalla fine del secolo XVI all’anno 1861, in Palazzo Vecchio a Firenze,” Rassegna d’Arte 11, 5 (1911), pp. 88, ill, 90-91.
• Piero Misciattelli, “L’Altare della Patria, ed il Fregio di Angiolo Zanelli,” Vita d’Arte 8 (1911), pp. 22, ill., 25.
• Art[uro] Jahn Rusconi, “Exposition des portraits italiens à Florence,” Les Arts, 120 (1911), pp. 13, ill., 28, 32.
• Ciro Caversazzi et al., Il ritratto italiano dal Caravaggio al Tiepolo (Bergamo, 1911), pp. 199-200, 215-216, pl. 9.
• Margherita Nugent, All’esposizione del ritratto: note e impressioni (Florence, 1912), pp. 77-78, ill.
• A[dolf] Kronfeld, Führer durch die Fürstlich Liechtensteinsche Gemäldegalerie in Wien (Vienna, 1925), p. 119, and subsequent editions [including 1931].
• Luigi Parigi, “La musica figurate. VII. Allegorie, nature morte, ritratti,” La Rassegna Musicale 1 (1928), p. 486.

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Christ in the Wilderness

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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 Saints Philip and Agnes

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The Marriage of the Virgin

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Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

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The Musicians

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