Portrait of a Man

15th or 16th century

Franciabigio Italian, 1482-1525

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About the Artwork

Title Portrait of a Man

Artwork Date 15th or 16th century

Artist Franciabigio

Life Dates 1482-1525

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 Paint on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 16 × 11 3/4 inches (40.6 × 29.9 cm) Framed: 24 3/4 × 21 3/4 × 3 1/4 inches (62.9 × 55.2 × 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. 89.7

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, upper right: FRAC [overlapping to form a monogram] A S M [the letters probably mean "Francesco a sua manu."]

Marks Marked, painted, back of panel: [unidentified coat-of-arms: left side has a compass over a chevron and three rosettes, two above the compass and one below the chevron; right side, across top: three fleur-de-lis and below them a diagonal cross with an eight-pointed star in each quadrant].

Provenance

James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1889, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Detroit Art Loan Exhibition. 1883, p. 47, no. 480.

Scripps, James E., ed. Catalogue of the Scripps Collection of Old Masters. Detroit, 1889, p. 13, no. 7 [as by “Maso Guidi, called Massaccio (attributed to)”].

"The Scripps Old Masters." The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152; p. 150 [attributed to Maso Guidi (Masaccio)].

Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, p. 9.

Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. Detroit, 1910, p. 14, no. 8 [as by "Tommaso Guidi (called Masaccio)"].

Burroughs, C. Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 20, no. 7.

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 78 (repr.).

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 210.

Berenson, B. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 180.

Richardson, E. P., ed. DIA Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 49, no. 78.

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, vol. 1. London, 1963, p. 65 [as possibly by Franciabigio].

Santoro, F. Sricchia, Paragone (Arte). July 1963, p. 22.

Paintings in the DIA: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 41.

Fredericksen, B., and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 75 [as possible studio work].

McKillop, Susan Regan. Franciabigio. Berkeley, 1974, pp. 42-46; p. 54; p. 105, (figs. 31-33); p. 130, no. 1; pp. 134-136, no. 12.

Dülberg, A. Privatporträts. Geschichte und Ikonologie einer Gattung im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert, Berlin, 1990, p. 183, cat. 23, (pls. 400-401) [as by Franciabigio, accepts McKillop's ca. 1513 dating].

Santoro, F. Sricchia. "Del Franciabigio, dell'Indaco e di una vecchia questione. I." Prospettiva, no. 70 (April 1993): pp. 22-49; p. 30 (figs. 11-12).

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