Portrait of a Milanese Woman Wearing a Floral Garland

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Portrait of a Milanese Woman Wearing a Floral Garland

Artist Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio Italian, b. circa 1467, Milan; d. 1516, Milan

Datecirca 1495–1499

MediumOil on panel

Dimensions15 3/8 x 11 3/8 in. (39.1 x 28.9 cm)
Frame: 27 7/8 x 24 3/4 in. (70.8 x 62.9 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.40

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ProvenanceFerencz Szarvady, Budapest (sold, Hotel Drouot, Paris, Feb. 21, 1874, no. 5 of catalogue); Gustave Dreyfus, Paris, 1874-1914; Dreyfus estate 1914-30; acquired by Joseph Duveen in 1930; with Duveen Brothers, New York, 1930-1957; Samuel H. Kress collection, New York, 1957; Gift of Kress Foundation to NCMA, 1961.
Published ReferencesS. Reinach, Tableaux inedits ou peu connus (1906), 43 ff, illus.

Bernhard Berenson, Northern Italian Painters of the Renaissance (New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1907), 171.

J. Guiffrey, Les Arts (January 1908), 14.

Reinach, S. Repertoire de peinture, Vol. 3 (1910), 106.

F. Malaguzzi-Valeri, La Corte di Lodovico il Moro, Vol. 3 (1917), 94, illus. fig. 86.

Wilhelm E. Suida, Leonardo und sein Kreis (Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1929), 193, 288, illus. 122, fig. 211.

Geoffrey C. Holme, ed., Fine Art (Special Spring no. of The Studio) (London: 1931), 18, illus., announcement of purchase of Dreyfus collection by Duveen Bros. in 1930.

Guglielmo Suida, Leonardo da Vinci, Edizione curata della mostra di Leonardo da Vinci in Milano, "La Scuola di Leonardo" (Novara, Italy: Instituto Geografico de Agostini, 1939/40), 320, illus. 317.

Old Masters (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Duveen, 1946), cat. no. 8.

C. Z. Offin, Pictures on Exhibit (May, 1947), 14f, illus.

Portrait Panorama (exhibition catalogue) (Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1947), cat. no. 2.

Leonardo da Vinci (exhibition catalogue) (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 1949), cat. no. 42.

William Suida, "The School of Leonardo," Leonardo da Vinci (New York: Reynal and Co., circa 1956, printed 1967), 319, 320, illus. 317.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 82, illus. (b-w) 83.

"Picture of the Month," North Carolina Museum of Art Calendar of Art Events 4, no. 10 (June-July 1961), discussed and illus. (b-w) unnumbered page.

"The Heathcoat-Armory Collection," Apollo (1965), 142.

Charles W. Stanford, Masterpieces in the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 31, illus. (b-w).

Fern R. Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XV - XVI Century, Vol. 2 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1968), 133, illus. fig. 321.

Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 16, illus. (b-w) 17.

Maria Teresa Fiorio, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (Milan: Jandi Sapi Editori S.r.l., 2000), 98, 246, illus. (color) 97.

Meryle Secrest, Duveen: A Life in Art (New York: Knopf, 2004), 406.

Perri Lee Roberts, Corpus of Early Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections: The South, Vol. 3 (Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2009), discussed 608, illus. (b-w) 609.

Alice Silvia Legé, Gustave Dreyfus: Collectionneur et Mécène, dans le Paris de la Belle Epoque (Milan: Officina Libraria, 2019), illus. (color) 156, no. 58.

Léonard de Vinci (exhibition catalogue) (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2019), cat. no. 69, illus. (color) 165, cat. entry p. 411.

Lyle Humphrey, "Saul Among the Prophets: W.R. Valentiner, Robert L. Humber, Carl W. Hamilton, and the Italian Collection at the NCMA," Lisandra Estevez, ed., Collecting Early Modern Art (1400-1800) in the U.S. South (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 44, 45, illus. fig. 2-5 (color).Exhibition HistoryParis, Société Philanthropique, École des Beaux Arts, 1897, cat. no. 1 (as Ambrogio de Predis).

New York, NY, Duveen, Old Masters, January-March, 1946, cat. no. 8.

Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, "Portrait Panorama," September 10-October 12, 1947, cat. no. 2.

Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum, "Leonardo da Vinci," June 3-July 17, 1949, cat. no. 42.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection, October 1970, 16, illus. (b-w) 17.

Paris, Musée du Louvre, “Leonardo da Vinci,” October 24, 2019–February 24, 2020, cat. no. 69, illus. (color).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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