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Attributed to Giovanni Bellini Giovanni Emo
KRESS CATALOGUE NUMBER IDENTIFIER K413 931
ARTIST NATIONALITY Bellini, Giovanni, c. 1430/1435-1516 Italian
DATE MEDIUM c. 1475/1480 oil on panel, transferred to canvas mounted on panel
TYPE OF OBJECT Painting
DIMENSIONS painted surface: 46.9 x 32.6 cm (18 7/16 x 12 13/16 in)
LOCATION National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia
PROVENANCE Dr. Pellegrini, Venice; sold 1786 to Sir Abraham Hume [1749-1838], Wormley Bury, Hertfordshire; [1] by inheritance to his grandson, John Hume Cust, 2nd viscount Alford [1812-1851], Ashridge Park, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, and Belton House, Grantham, Lincolnshire [painting at Ashridge Park]; [2] by inheritance to his son, John William Spencer Brownlow Egerton-Cust, 2nd earl Brownlow [1842-1867], Ashridge Park; by inheritance to his brother, Adelbert Wellington Brownlow Cust, 3rd earl Brownlow [1844-1921], Ashridge Park; his estate; (Brownlow sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 4 and 7 May 1923, 1st day, no. 12); purchased by Vickers for (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold May 1936 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; [3] gift 1939 to NGA. [1] A Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Pictures...Belonging to [Sir Abraham Hume], London, 1824: no. 2, as The Portrait of Bartolomeo Cogliani or Coleoni. [2] On 24 July 1810, John Cust, 1st viscount Alford, 2nd baron and 1st earl
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Brownlow [1779-1853], married Sophia, the second daughter and co-heir of Sir Abraham Hume; she died in 1814 and was the first of his three wives. Their first child was John Hume Cust, who died two years before his father and so never succeeded to the earldom. (See The Dictionary of National Biography 10: 208-209, and Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 1956: 302-303.) [3] The Duveen Brothers letter confirming the sale of thirteen paintings and one sculpture, including NGA 1939.1.224, is dated 18 May 1936; the provenance is given as "Coll'n. of late Third Earl Brownlow" (copy in NGA curatorial files; Box 474, Folder 5, Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles).
ACCESSION NUMBER 1939.1.224
KRESS NUMBER 413
PICHETTO NUMBER 8901
LEGACY NGA NUMBER 335
1 ACQUISITION Duveen Brothers, 1936
1 DISTRIBUTION Gift to National Gallery of Art, June 29, 1939
EXTERNAL LINKS Related Collection Record https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.365.html
Related National Gallery of Art Library Image Collections Record https://library.nga.gov/permalink/01NGA_INST/1p5jkvq/alma99259193804896
Related National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalog https://library.nga.gov/permalink/01NGA_INST/1cl1g8d/alma992014793504896
16 ARCHIVAL ITEMS
K0413 - Expert opinion by Berenson, circa 1920s-1950s
K0413 - Expert opinion by Berenson, circa 1920s-1950s
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K0413 - Expert opinion by Longhi, circa 1920s-1950s
K0413 - Expert opinion by Perkins, circa 1920s-1940s
K0413 - Expert opinion by A. Venturi, circa 1920s-1930s
K0413 - Alan Burroughs report, circa 1930s-1940s
K0413 - Alan Burroughs report, circa 1930s-1940s
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K0413 - Art object record, circa 1930s-1950s
K0413 - Alan Burroughs report, circa 1930s-1940s
K0413 - Alan Burroughs report, circa 1930s-1940s
K0413 - Art object record, circa 1930s-1950s
K0413 - Expert opinion by Fiocco, 1938
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K0413 - Expert opinion by Suida, 1938
K0413 - Work summary log, 1942-1946
K0413 - Condition and restoration record, circa 1950s-1960s
K0413 - Examination summary, 1988
RECORD LINK https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/931
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