Portrait of a Man in Armor on Horseback

Artist Moretto da Brescia Italian, 1498–1554

Date16th century

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions98 x 66 in. (248.9 x 167.6 cm)
Frame: 103 1/2 x 72 1/8 x 3 1/4 in. (262.9 x 183.2 x 8.3 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.160

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ProvenanceGavardi family [?]; Martinengo da Barco family [?]; Counts Donà delle Rose, Venice, until 1934; M. Knoedler & Co., NY, by 1938[?]; sold to NCMA, 1960.Published ReferencesBernhard Berenson, Northern Italian Painters of the Renaissance (New York:

The Knickerbocker Press, 1907), 265.

Bernhard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932), 376.

Lorenzetti and L. Planiscig, La Collezione dei Conti Donà delle Rose a Venezia (Venice: 1934), no. 17 (as Moretto).

The Century Club, Masters of Portraiture (New York, 1938), cat. no. 6.

Gyorgy Gombosi, Moretto da Brescia (Basel: Holbein-Verlag, 1943), 120 (as follower of Moretto).

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 191, illus. (b-w).

Betty Chamberlain, "North Carolina: First state-initiated collection: How to get and spend a million dollars for art," Art News 55, no. 2 (April 1956), illus. 40.

Gian Alberto Dell'Acqua, et al, Allesandro Bonvicino il Moretto (exhibition catalogue) (Bologna: Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1988), illus.

Pier Virgilio Begni Redona, Alessandro Bonvicino: Il Moretto da Brescia (exhibition catalogue) (Brescia: Editrice La Scuola, 1988), 578, 579, illus. 579, fig. 55. (Catalogue only: not in show.)

Exhibition HistoryNew York, The Century Club, "Masters of Portraiture," March 6-April 3, 1938, cat. no. 6.

Bologna, "Alessandro Bonvicino il Moretto," June 18-November 20, 1988, illus.
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