Portrait of the Italian Poet, Giambattista Marino

ca. 1621

Frans Pourbus the Younger Netherlandish, 1569 - 1622

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European: Poussin, Level 2, South Wing

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Title Portrait of the Italian Poet, Giambattista Marino

Artwork Date ca. 1621

Artist Frans Pourbus the Younger

Life Dates 1569 - 1622

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. Netherlandish

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: 31 7/8 × 25 7/8 inches (81 × 65.7 cm) Framed: 41 7/8 × 35 5/8 × 3 1/4 inches (106.4 × 90.5 × 8.3 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. 89.52

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Provenance

Collection Earl of Hardwicke (Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, England);
June 30, 1888, auction (Christie's London, England) lot 4 [as Eckhout];
1888, G. Smith [bought for £15-15-00].
James E. Scripps (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. Detroit, 1889, no. 38.

"The Scripps Old Masters." The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152; p. 151 [as by Mathieu Le Nain, “Portrait of Tycho Brahe”].

Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern, Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, pp. 21-22, no. 34 [as by Mathieu Le Nain, “Portrait of Tycho Brahe”].

Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. Detroit, 1910, pp. 30-31, no. 34 [as Mathiew Le Nain and representing Tycho Brahe].

Burroughs, C. Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 63, no. 61 [as a portrait of Tycho Brahe].

Richardson, E.P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 141, no. 784.

Bandes, Susan J. Pursuits and Pleasures: Baroque Paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Dennos Museum Center. Battle Creek, 2003, pp. 9, 32-33 (ill.).

Ducos, B. "Court Culture in France Among the First Bourbons: Portrait of Giambattista Marino by Frans Pourbus the Younger." Bulletin of the DIA 83, no. 1/4 (2009): pp. 12-21 (ill.).

Russo, Emilio, Patrizia Tosini, Andrea Zezza, and Beatrice Tomei, eds. Poetry and Painting in the 17th Century: Giovan Battisa Marino and the "Marvelous" Passion. Exh. cat., Galleria Borgehese. Rome, 2024, p. 113.

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Frans Pourbus the Younger, Portrait of the Italian Poet, Giambattista Marino, ca. 1621, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.52.