Double Portrait of a Young Man and Young Woman

ca. 1520

Giovanni Paolo d' Agostino Italian, 1490-1524

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Title Double Portrait of a Young Man and Young Woman

Artwork Date ca. 1520

Artist Giovanni Paolo d' Agostino

Life Dates 1490-1524

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. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 15 1/4 × 22 inches (38.7 × 55.9 cm) Framed: 25 1/4 × 31 1/2 × 2 3/4 inches (64.1 × 80 × 7 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of James E. Scripps

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. 89.2

Markings

Signed Signed, on painted cartellino, suspended from the top center: joanis paulus de augustinus. P

Inscriptions Inscribed, on back, stenciled: ( )S 37

Provenance

collection of Henry Wilkinson (White Webbs Park, Enfield, England);
April 21, 1888, aution of H. Wilkins (Christie's, London, England), lot 158;
purchased by Dearn on behalf of James E. Scripps;
collection of James E. Scripps [1835-1906] (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Catalogue of the Scripps Collection. cat., DMA. Detroit, 1889, p. 15, no. 9 [as by Giovanni Bellini, "Portrait of a nobleman and his wife"].

"The Scripps Old Masters," The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152, p. 149 [as by Giovanni Bellini, "Portraits of an Italian Nobleman and His Wife"].

Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, p. 10.

Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. DMA. Detroit, 1910, p. 16, no. 10, (repr.) [as by Giovanni Bellini, "Portrait of a nobleman and his wife"].

Bryant, L.M. What pictures to see in America. New York, 1915, pp. 231-32, (fig. 147) [referred to as by Giovanni Bellini and titled "Portraits of an Italian Nobleman and his wife"].

Moore, Charles. "Identification by Bernard Berenson of a Painting in the Scripps Collection," Bulletin of the DMA 10, no. 7 (March 1916): pp. 1-2, (repr.).

Berenson, B. Venetian Painting in America. Fifteenth Century. New York, 1916, pp. 261-62, (fig. 110).

Berenson, B. "Un altro quadro di Giovanni di Agostini," Rassegna d'arte antica e moderna, vol. 16, no. 4 (April 1916): pp. 73-74, (repr.) [dates picture to ca. 1520, based in part on clothing style, which is Lombard, ca. 1510-25].

"Art Notes," Bulletin of the DIA 11, no. 6 (March 1917): pp. 58-60, esp. p. 60, (repr.).

Gronau, G. Kunstchronik. December 10, 1920, p. 213.

Burroughs, C. Catalogue of paintings, sculpture and contemporary arts and crafts. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1920, p. 15, cat. 1 [dated ca. 1510-20].

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 1 [as "Double portrait of a Young Man and a Young Woman"].

Richardson, E. P., ed. DIA Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944 (2nd ed.), p. 5, no. 1.

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, vol. I. London, 1957, p. 2.

Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. DIA. Detroit, 1965, p. 5 [as Double Portrait of a Young Man and Woman].

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 3.

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Giovanni Paolo d' Agostino, Double Portrait of a Young Man and Young Woman, ca. 1520, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.2.