Portrait of a Young Man as a Gentleman

Artist Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi, called Fra Galgario Italian, 1655–1743

Datecirca 1720–1730

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions55 x 39 3/4 in. (139.7 x 101 cm)
Frame: 68 x 52 3/8 x 3 1/2 in. (172.7 x 133 x 8.9 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.53

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceMarchese Enrico Visconti Venosta [1], Rome (by 1943) [Francesco Cataluccio, La Politica estera di E. Visconti Venosta, Firenze, 1940]; Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1950; given to NCMA, 1961.

[1] Visconti Venonsta is a noble Milanese family. Marchese Enrico Visconti-Venonsta lent the paintings (GL.60.17.53 and .54) to the exhibition Cinque pittori del Settecento, Antiquaria, Rome, April 1943, nos. 3 and 4 (catalogue by Alessandro Morandotti). The paintings were not included two years later in the exhibition Premio Fra Galgario per il retratto e l’autoritratto, Palazzo della Raglione, Bergamo, October 14–November 11, 1945.
Published ReferencesG. Briganti, Emporium 97 (1943), 196.

A. Morandotti, Cinque Pittori del Settecento Ghislandi - Crespi - Magnasco - Bazzani - Ceruti, Rome, 1943 [Catalogo della IV Mostra d' Arte antica organizzata da "Antiquaria" nell' aprile 1943 nel Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Rome], cat. no. 3, illus.

Terisio Pignatti, "An Exhibition of Lombard Painters of Reality," Burlington Magazine 95, no. 605 (August 1953), 277, cat. no. 39, illus. 276 (as Portrait of a Young Man, 141 x 113 cm.).

A. Cipriani and G. Testori, Pittori della Realta in Lombardia (exhibition catalogue) (Milan: Palazzo Reale, 1953), cat. no. 77 or 78.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 108, illus. (b-w) 109 (as Portrait of a Pupil as a Gentleman).

Painting in Italy in the 18th Century: Rococo to Romanticism, John Maxon and Joseph J. Rishel, eds. (exhibition catalogue) (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1970), cat. no. 7, illus.

R. Palluchini, Arte Veneta 24 (1970), 293.

D. S. Sutton, "Where the Lemon Trees Blossom," Apollo 92, no. 103 (September 1970), 175-176, illus. 170, fig. 7.

Maria Christina Gozzoli, Vittore Ghislandi detto Fra' Galgario. Estratto da "I Pittori Bergmaschi," (Bergamo: Poligrafiche Bolis, 1981), 155, illus. fig. 1.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 208.

John T. Spike, Baroque Portraiture in Italy: Works from North American Collections (exhibition catalogue) (Sarasota: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1984), appendix cat. no. 40, illus. 210.

Mina Gregori, ed., Pittura a Bergamo; dal Romanico al Neoclassicismo (Milano: Cariplo, Cassa di Risparmio delle Provincie Lombardie, 1991), 279, illus.Exhibition HistoryRome, Italy, Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, "Cinque Pittori del Settecento Ghislandi - Crespi - Magnasco - Bazzani - Ceruti," April 1943, cat. no. 3, illus.

Milan, Italy, Palazzo Reale, "I Pittori della Realta in Lombardia," April-July 1953, cat. no. 77 or 78.

Chicago, IL, Art Institute of Chicago; "Painting in Italy in the 18th Century: Rococo to Romanticism," September 19-November 1, 1970; Minneapolis, MN, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, November 24, 1970-January 10, 1971; Toledo, OH, Museum of Art, February 7-March 21, 1971, cat. no. 7.

Saratosa, FL, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, "Baroque Portraiture in Italy: Works from North American Collections, December 7, 1984-February 3, 1985; Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, March 20-May 20, 1985, appendix cat. no. 40, illus. 210.
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