Costanza da Sommaia

ca. 1540

Agnolo Bronzino Italian, 1503-1572

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Title Costanza da Sommaia

Artwork Date ca. 1540

Artist Agnolo Bronzino

Life Dates 1503-1572

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Florentine

Medium Oil on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 17 × 11 3/8 inches (43.2 × 28.9 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 35.8

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Provenance

Milan, Treccani collection (according to Baccheschi, but almost certainly erroneous)?;
Great Britain, Kent, Chislehurst, Frognal, Collection Robert Marsham-Townshend, Earl Sydney (until 1915);
Kent, Chislehurst, Frognal, auction, Sydney Collection (Knight, Frank & Rutley), 7 June 1915, lot. 10, repr. (as by Bronzino, Portrait of Eleonora of Toledo) ;
New York, Lilienfeld Galleries (dealer--1935), from whom purchased by the DIA in 1935.

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Published References

A Catalogue of the Sydney Collection at Frognal, Chislehurst, Kent. Sales cat., London, June 7, 1915, p. 2, no. 10 (ill.). [as “A bust Portrait of Eleonora Toledo”]

Richardson, E.P. "Costanza da Sommaia." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 14, no. 7 (April 1935): 88–90, pp. 88–90 (ill.).

Berenson, Bernard. Pitture Italiane del Rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 98. [as "Bust of a Young Woman"]

Richardson, E.P., ed. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 18, no. 444. [dated about 1540]

Emiliani, Andrea. Il Bronzino. Busto Arsizio, 1960, p. 78. [doubted Bronzino attribution; dated ca. 1540]

Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, vol. 1. London, 1963, p. 41. [as by the studio of Bronzino]

Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired Before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 18.

Matteoli, Anna. "La retrattistica del Bronzino nel 'Limbo.'" Commentari 20 (October–December 1969): 281-316, pp. 285–286, fig. 3 (ill.).

Fredericksen, Burton B. and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 36. [as "Portrait of Costanza da Sommaia?" by Bronzino]

Bacceschi, Edi. L'opera completa del Bronzino. Milan, 1973, p. 106, no. 131 (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Agnolo Bronzino, Costanza da Sommaia, ca. 1540, oil on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 35.8.