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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

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.
Published ReferencesG. Gronau, Gazette des Beaux-Arts 13 (1895), 438 (as Cariani).

Adolfo Venturi, L'Arts 26 (1923), 30.

Catalogue of the Collection of Sir George Lindsay Holford, Westonbit, Gloucestershire (1924), no. 41 (as Girolano Romanino).

Studi dal vero (1927), 293.

Adolfo Venturi, Storia dell'arte Italiana 9, part 3 (Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1928), 846, illus. 846 (as Girolano Romanino).

F. Wittgens, [title?] Apollo 11 (1930), 86, 88, illus. fig. XIII.

Ernst Günter Troche, "Giovanni Cariani als Bildnismaler," Pantheon 1 (January 1932), 1-7, no. 23.

Ernst Günter Troche, "Giovanni Cariani," Jahrbuch der Preuszischen Kunstsammlungen 55 (1934), 122, no. 57.

Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC: The National Gallery, 1941), cat. no. 419 (as Cariani).

Masterpieces from the Berlin Museums (Detroit Institute of Arts, et al, 1948-1949), 100.

Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: The Venetian School, Vol. 1 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1957), 55 (as Cariani).

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 90, illus. (b-w) 91.

Maria Luisa Ferrari, Il Romanino (Milano: Bramante, 1961), 312.

Paul Wescher, "Die Kress-Schenkung für Raleigh," Pantheon 21, no. 1 (January/February 1963), 13, illus.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, nos. 2 & 3 (Winter-Spring 1964), listed 57.

Fern R. Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian School XV - XVI Century, Vol. 2 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1957), 169, illus. fig. 404.

Rodolfo Pallucchini and Francesco Rossi, Giovanni Cariani (Bergamo: Credito Bergamasco, 1983), 86, 136-7, illus. 83.

Jolyn Key, "Taking It a Step Beyond: Fayetteville Museum of Arts Beyond Likeness Exibit [sic]," Up & Coming Magazine (July 22-August 4, 1998), illus. (b-w) 17.

Angelica Daneo, ed. Glory of Venice: Masterworks of the Renaissance (exhibition catalogue) (Denver: Denver Art Museum, 2016), cat. no. 38, illus. (color).
Exhibition HistoryLondon, England, The New Gallery, "Venetian Art," 1894-95, no. 28 (as Cariani).

London, England, Burlington Fine Arts Club, "Venetian School," 1914[1915?], cat. no. 40 in 1915 catalogue.

London, England, Burlington Fine Arts Club, "Venetian School," 1921-22, cat. no. 16.

London, England, The Royal Academy of Art, "Exhibition of Italian Art," January-March 1930, cat. no. 409.

Washington, DC, The National Gallery of Art, 1941-52, cat. no. 419.

Tucson, AZ, The University of Arizona, 1954-57.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "A Gift to North Carolina: Italian Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection," February 5-April 24, handout no. 15.

Hickory, NC, The Hickory Museum of Art, "Beyond Likeness: Contemporary Considerations of the Portrait," November 1-December 31, 1997; Wilmington, NC, St. John's Museum of Art, April 30-June 28, 1998; Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art, July 11-August 30, 1998; Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum, September 17, 1998-January 2, 1999; Greenville, NC, Greenville Museum of Art, January 14-February 28, 1999, brochure.

Denver, CO, Denver Art Museum, “Glory of Venice: Masterworks of the Renaissance,” October 2, 2016–February 12, 2017; Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, March 4–June 18, 2017, cat. no. 38, illus. (color).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–July 8, 2024.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Venice and the Ottoman Empire," September 28, 2024-January 5, 2025. Object Rights Statement

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