Portrait of a Man

between 1520 and 1578

Giovanni Battista Moroni Italian, 1520-1578

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Portrait of a Man

Artwork Date between 1520 and 1578

Artist Giovanni Battista Moroni

Life Dates 1520-1578

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: 22 1/16 × 17 13/16 × 7/8 inches (56.1 × 45.3 × 2.2 cm) Framed: 32 3/4 inches × 28 1/2 inches × 2 inches (83.2 × 72.4 × 5.1 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Howard Young

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. 29.244

Markings

Signed [not signed]

Marks Printed label on backing board, verso: 182 Handwritten label on the verso: 141, Moroni

Provenance

(Howard Young, New York, New York, USA);
1929-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Heil, Walter. “Two Venetian Paintings of the High Renaissance.” Bulletin of the DIA 10, no. 8 (May 1929): pp. 107, 109 (ill.).

A Guide to the Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit. Detroit, 1930, p. 14.

Heil, Walter. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 149.

Thieme, Ulrich and Felix Becker. Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildeden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig, 1931, p. 165.

Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places. Oxford, 1932, p. 381.

Berenson, Bernard. Pitture italiane del Rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 327.

Lendorff, Gertrude. Giovanni Battista Moroni: il ritrattisto beramasco. Bergamo, 1939, pp. 145, no. 77. [Also reprinted 1978; Lendorff publishes the work as probably in the collection of Howard Young; however, the painting had been accessioned to the DIA's collection, 1929.]

Detroit Institute of Arts. Paintings and Sculptures Illustrated. Detroit, 1943, p. 71 (ill.).

Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Painting. Detroit, 1944, p. 92.

Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Check List of the Paintings Acquired Before June 1965, 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 77.

Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Check List of the Paintings Acquired Before January, 1967. Detroit, 1967, p. 81.

Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Check List of the Paintings Acquired Before January, 1970. Detroit, 1970, p. 105.

Fredericksen, Burton B. and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collection. Cambridge, MA, 1972, pp. 145, 527, 579.

Gregori, Mina. Giovan Battista Moroni. Bergamo, 1979, p. 255 (no. 98), p. 363 (ill.).

Laskin, Jr, Myron and Michael Pantazzi, eds. Catalogue of the National Gallery of Canada Ottawa: European and American Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, vol 1. Ottawa, 1987, p. 198.

Ng, Aimee, Simone Facchinetti, and Arturo Galansino. Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture. Exh. cat., The Frick Collection, New York, 2019, pp. 48-49 (ill. fig. 33), 92.

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