Portrait of a Man

Artist Michele Tosini (Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio) Italian, 1503–1577

Date1575

MediumOil on panel

Dimensions32 1/2 x 26 in. (82.6 x 66 cm)
Frame: 44 1/4 x 37 3/4 in. (112.4 x 95.9 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Erlanger

Object numberG.55.10.1

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceMr. and Mrs. Arthur Erlanger, New York; given to NCMA, 1955.Published ReferencesW. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of paintings: Including Three Set of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), cat. no. 188, illus.

Gertrude Coor-Achenbach, "Two Early Madonnas by Michele Tosini," The Art Quarterly 22, no. 2 (Summer 1959), 158, illus. 159, fig. 3.

Bacchiacca and his Friends (exhibition catalogue) (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1961), cat. no. 73, illus.

Kurt W. Forster, "Probleme um Pontormos Porträtmalerei (III): ein Beitrag zum Porträtwerk Michele Tosinis," Pantheon 25, no. 1 (January- February 1967), 30, illus. 32.

R. Villani, "Contribuito a Michele di Ridolfo di Ghirlandaio," Anitchità viva 21 (1982), 19-22.

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) 192.

Nora W. Desloge, "Michele Tosini, A Florentine Nobleman," in Italian Paintings and Sculpture. The Saint Louis Art Museum Bulletin 19, no. 1 (Winter 1988), 46-51, 62 (NCMA ptg. cited 48, 62 no. 87).

Heidi Josepha Hornik, Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio and the Reception of Mannerism in Florence, Ph.D. dissertation (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University, 1990), 72, 73, 261, cat. no. 36

Heidi J. Hornik, "Michele Tosini: The Artist, the Oeuvre, and the Testament," in Continuity, Innovation, and Connoisseurship: Old Master Paintings at the Palmer Museum of Art, Mary Jane Harris, ed. (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2003), briefly discussed 31, 37 (note 51), illus. (b-w) 32, fig. 12.

Heidi J. Hornik, Michele Tosini and the Ghirlandaio Workshop in Cinquecento Florence (Eastbourne, Great Britain and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2009), discussed 102-103, illus. (b-w) 102, fig. 23.

Elizabeth Currie, Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), mentioned 1, illus (b-w) 2, fig. 0.1.
Exhibition HistoryBaltimore, MD, Baltimore Museum of Art, "Bacchiacca and His Friends," January 10 - February 19, 1961, cat. no. 73, illus.

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