Portrait of a Man

15th century

Domenico Ghirlandaio Italian, between 1448 and 1449 - 1494

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About the Artwork

Title Portrait of a Man

Artwork Date 15th century

Artist Domenico Ghirlandaio

Life Dates between 1448 and 1449 - 1494

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 Fresco

Dimensions Unframed: 20 3/8 × 15 1/4 inches (51.8 × 38.7 cm) Framed: 30 1/4 × 25 1/4 × 2 3/4 inches (76.8 × 64.1 × 7 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. 31.53

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Provenance

until 1902, collection of Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael (Castle Craig, Scotland);
May 13, 1902, auctioned by (Christie's, London, England), lot 270;
until 1906, collection of Ernest William Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe (London, England);
May 12, 1906, auctioned by (Christie's, probably London, England), lot 24;
May 12, 1906, purchased by Burgess;
purchased by (Arthur Joseph Sully, London, England);
1930, collection of R. H. Ward (London, England);
1931, (Siegfried Aram, New York, New York, USA);
1931-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Scharf, A. "Ein bisher unbekanntes Bildnis von Domenico Ghirlandaio," Der Cicerone, vol. 22 (1930): pp. 591-94, esp. p. 592, (repr.).

Valentiner, W. R. "Portrait of an Old Man by Domenico Ghirlandaio," Bulletin of the DIA, vol. 13, no. 1 (October 1931): pp. 5-7.

Frankfurter, A. "Ghirlandaio and Mainardi: A study in portraiture," The Antiquarian (1931): p. 56 [dates DIA picture to ca. 1482-83].

van Marle, R. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol. 13. The Hague, 1931, p. 57 [dates as contemporary with Sassetti Chapel, early 1480's].

Berenson, B. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 192.

Richardson, E. P., ed. DIA Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 52, no. 542 [dates picture to ca. 1475].

Lorenzo il Magnifico e le Arti. Exh. cat., Palazzo Strozzi. Florence, May 21-October 31, 1949, p. 68, no. 3, [Sala X, in exhibition].

Masterpieces of Painting and Sculpture. Detroit, 1949, p. 55, (repr. only).

Richardson, E.P., ed. Treasures from the DIA. Detroit, 1960, p. 76.

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, vol. 1. New York, 1963, p. 74.

Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 45.

Shearman, J. Andrea del Sarto, vol. 2. London, 1965, p. 275.

Frederickson, B. & F. Zeri. Census of pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections. 1972, p. 82 [as "Portrait of Man in Profile" in the manner of Domenico Ghirlandaio].

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