Young Man

between 1448 and 1494

Domenico Ghirlandaio Italian, between 1448 and 1449 - 1494

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Young Man

Artwork Date between 1448 and 1494

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 Oil on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 13 × 9 inches (33 × 22.9 cm) Framed: 20 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 1 3/4 inches (52.1 × 41.9 × 4.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Fisher

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. 53.468

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Provenance

late 19th century, Baron Arthur de Schickler [1828-1919] (Martinvast, Normandy, France);
Baron Hubert de Pourtalès (Paris, France);
1923, acquired by (Sir Joseph Duveen, London, England and New York, New York, USA);
(Kleinberger, Paris, France);
Fredore Stern;
until ca. 1931, (Howard Young, New York, New York, USA);
ca. 1931, Alfred J. Fisher [1892–1963] (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1953-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Frankfurter, Alfred M. “Ghirlandaio and Mainardi: a study in portraiture.” Antiquarian 17, no. 5 (November 1931): 21-25, 56, 58, pp. 58 (ill.). [as late portrait by Ghirlandaio.]

Valentiner, Wilhelm R. Loan Exhibition of Italian Paintings from the XIV to XVI Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1933, p. 240, cat. 27 (ill.).

Valentiner, Wilhelm R. “Die Leihausstellung frühitalienischen Malerei in Detroit.” Pantheon 12 (August 1933): p. 242.

Frankfurter, Alfred M. “Important Italian Paintings recently added to American Collections: Part I.” Art News 34 (March 14, 1936): 5-6, p. 6 (ill.). [as ca. 1490.]

Berenson, Bernard. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 135. [attributed to Lorenzo Costa.]

Valentiner, Wilhelm R. and George Henry McCall. Masterpieces of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300 to 1800. Exh. cat., World's Fair. New York, 1939, p. 70, cat. 142.

Masterpieces of Painting from Detroit Private Collections. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1949, no. 10.

Comstock, H. "The Connoisseur in America: A Ghirlandaio Portrait for Detroit." Connoisseur 134, no. 541 (December 1954): pp. 219-224, pp. 223-224 (ill.).

"Cronache. Detroit: Un Ghirlandaio e un Mainardi nelle collezioni dell'Institute of Arts." Emporium 119, no. 714 (June 1954): pp. 284-285 (ill.).

Exh. cat., Salle Arte. 1954, no. 13, p. 77, (ill.).

Richardson, Edgar Preston. “The Madonna Enthroned a Tryptych by the Master of Saint Cecilia.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 33, nos. 3/4 (1953-54): 66-75, p. 69 (ill.).

The Renaissance Image of Man and the World. Exh. cat., Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. Columbus, 1961, no. 9, p. 55.

Paintings in the DIA: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired Before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 45.

Varese, Ranieri. Lorenzo Costa. Milan, 1967, p. 68, no. 36.

Berenson, Bernard. 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. 96. [as by Lorenzo Costa.]

Fredericksen, Burton and Fredrico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 82.

Cummings, Frederick, ed. Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1979, p. 135, cat. 108 (ill.).

Secrest, Meryle. Duveen: a life in art. New York, 2004, p. 442.

Gabrielli, Edith. Cosimo Rosselli Catalogo Ragionato. Turin, 2007, p. 178, cat. 52 (ill.). [as Cosimo Rosselli.]

Christiansen, Keith and Stefan Weppelmann, eds. The Renaissance Portrait: From Donatello to Bellini. Exh. cat., Bode-Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Berlin and New York, 2011, pp. 143-144, cat. 34 (ill.). [as Davide Ghirlandaio.]

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