Portrait of a Gentleman

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1540/50

Pietro de Marescalchi
Italian, 1520/22-1589

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Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Pietro Marescalchi
Title: Portrait of a Gentleman
Place: Feltre (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1540–1550
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 115 × 95 cm (45 1/4 × 37 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Lillian S. Timken (Mrs. William S. Timken)
Reference Number: 1951.318
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Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 294.
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 120, 526, 571.
Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 140–42, ill.
Maria Cristina Bagolan, Pietro Marescalchi 1522?–1589 ([Italy], 1993), pp. 14, 36, 111, fig. 4.
Giuliana Ericani, “Lorenzo Luzzo, Pietro de Marascalchi ed il Cinquecento feltrino,” in Giuliana Ericani, ed., Pietro de Marascalchi: Restauri studi e proposte per il Cinquecento feltrino, exh. cat. (Museo Civico, Feltre, 1994), p. 138, fig. 60.

New York, Van Diemen Galleries, Masterpieces of the Venetian School, February 25–March 16, 1929, no. 15.

Private collection, Warsaw [according to authentication documents supplied by the Van Diemen Galleries to Mr. and Mrs. William R. Timken, copy in curatorial file; Polish provenance is confirmed by the Warsaw customs seal on the stretcher]. Van Diemen Galleries, Berlin and New York, by 1926 [see opinion by August L. Mayer dated November 27, 1926 in documents cited above]; sold by Van Diemen Galleries to Mr. and Mrs. William R. Timken, New York, by 1929 [lent by them to New York 1929]; given to the Art Institute, 1951.

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