Gentleman of the Trivulzio Family

between 1450 and 1528

Bernardino dei Conti Italian, 1450-1528

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Gentleman of the Trivulzio Family

Artwork Date between 1450 and 1528

Artist Bernardino dei Conti

Life Dates 1450-1528

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 wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 41 1/2 × 28 1/2 inches (105.4 × 72.4 cm) Framed: 50 3/4 × 38 × 3 3/4 inches (128.9 × 96.5 × 9.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

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. 38.80

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Inscriptions Inscribed, bottom center, across painted parapet: F . M . C . T . 20. Inscribed, on back, in pencil on cradle: Bronzino [illegible writing states that frame is of French origin]

Provenance

until 1904, Collection Princess Mathilde (Bonaparte) (Paris, France);
May 17, 1904, auction (Galerie George Petit, Paris, France) lot 71 [as Milanese School with title "Prince Trivulzio"];
May 12, 1938, late Mr. J. Braz auction (Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, France) lot 23 [as by Morando];
J. Kleinberger (Paris, France);
May 12, 1938, (Kleinberger Galleries, Paris, France) no. 150 [initially in partnership with Parisian dealers A. Loebel and "A.W.," then as sole owner in November 1938];
November 1938-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Collection De S.A.I. Madame La Princesse Mathilde. Exh. cat., Galerie Georges Petit. Paris, 1904, no. 71. [as Milan School]

Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 18, no. 5 (1939): p. 4 (cover ill.). [cited as acquisition]

Mostra di Leonardo da Vinci. Milan, 1939, p. 198.

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 13, no. 431 (ill.). [costume worn by sitter dates portrait to first decade of 16th century]

Leondardo da Vinci Loan Exhibition. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum. Los Angeles, 1949, p. 93, no. 44 (ill.). [W. Suida considered picture to be de'Conti]

Masterpieces of Art in Memory of W.R. Valentiner. Exh. cat., North Carolina Museum of Art. Raleigh, 1959, pp. 25, 51, no. 27 (ill.).

Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 28.

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places. Central Italian and North Italian Schools, vol. 1. London, 1968, p. 47. [as "Gentleman of the Trivulzio Family"].

Oberhuber, Konrad. “Raphael and the State Portrait II: The Portrait of Lorenzo de’ Medici,” Burlington Magazine 113, no. 821 (August 1971): pp. 436-443; pp. 442, 443 note 21 (fig. 13).

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972, p. 55. [as attributed to de'Conti]

Trutty-Coohill, P. "Studies in the School of Leonardo da Vinci: Paintings in Public Collections in the United States with a Chronology of the Activity of Leonardo and his Pupils and Catalogue of Auction Sales." Unpublished Ph.D. diss, Pennsylvania State University, 1982, p. 136.

Fiorio, Maria Teresa. "Per il ritratto lombardo: Bernardino de' Conti." Arte Lombarda 68-69 (1984): pp. 38-52 (fig. 16) [as "Portrait of a Senator"]

Passoni, Maria Christina. "La ritrattistica di Bernardino de Conti. Alcune precisazioni sulla committenza." In Le Duché de Milan et les commanditaires français (1499 – 1521), eds. Elsig, Frédéric and Mauro Natale. Rome, 2013, pp. 160–65, 174, fig. 10 (ill.), pl. VIII (ill.).

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Bernardino dei Conti, Gentleman of the Trivulzio Family, between 1450 and 1528, oil on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 38.80.