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Portrait of a Man Wearing a Gold Chain

Artist Giovanni Cariani (b. circa 1485, San Giovanni Bianco near Fuipiano; d. after 1547, Venice)

Datecirca 1525–1530

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions30 3/8 x 31 5/8 in. (77.2 x 80.3 cm)
Frame: 41 5/8 x 42 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. (105.7 x 108.6 x 8.9 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.44

On View

Not on view

Collections

ProvenanceConte del Mayno, Milan (as Titian); Robert Stayner Holford (1808–1892), Westonbirt, Gloucestershire and Dorcester House, London; through inheritance to his son, Sir George Lindsay Holford (1860–1926) [1], Westonbirt, Gloucestershire (as Romanino?); Holford sale, Christie’s, London, July 15, 1927, lot 91, bought by Modigliani [2]; Adolfo Werner, Milan, by 1930; Fejer de Buck, Rome [3]; Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1938 [4]; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.

[1] The collection was formed by Robert Stayner Holford, who was advised by the dealer William Buchanan.

[2] Not the artist, who died in 1920

[3] Fejer de Buck was probably a dealer or agent for Contini-Bonacossi. He appears during the mid and late 1630s immediately before Contini-Bonacossi in several provenances on the Getty Provenance website.

[4] With the Kress Collection at the National Gallery from 1941 until 1951.