Gentleman of the Trivulzio Family, between 1450 and 1528

  • Bernardino dei Conti, Italian, 1450-1528

Oil on wood panel

  • 50 3/4 inches × 38 inches × 3 3/4 inches (128.9 × 96.5 × 9.6 cm) Unframed (Panel with Cradle): 42 15/16 × 29 1/8 × 11/16 inches (109 × 74 × 1.8 cm) Unframed (Panel without Cradle): 42 15/16 × 28 3/4 × 1/4 inches (109 × 73 × 0.6 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

38.80

On View

  • European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West

Department

European Painting

Inscribed, bottom center, across painted parapet: F . M . C . T . 20. Inscribed, on back, in pencil on cradle: Bronzino [illegible writing states that frame is of French origin]

until 1904, Collection Princess Mathilde (Bonaparte) (Paris, France)

May 17, 1904, auction (Galerie George Petit, Paris, France) lot 71 [as Milanese School with title "Prince Trivulzio"]

May 12, 1938, late Mr. J. Braz auction (Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, France) lot 23 [as by Morando]

J. Kleinberger (Paris, France)

May 12, 1938, (Kleinberger Galleries, Paris, France) no. 150 [initially in partnership with Parisian dealers A. Loebel and "A.W.," then as sole owner in November 1938]

November 1938-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Collection De S.A.I. Madame La Princesse Mathilde. Exh. cat., Galerie Georges Petit. Paris, 1904, no. 71. [as Milan School] Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 18, no. 5 (1939): p. 4 (cover ill.). [cited as acquisition] Mostra di Leonardo da Vinci. Milan, 1939, p. 198. Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 13, no. 431 (ill.). [costume worn by sitter dates portrait to first decade of 16th century] Leondardo da Vinci Loan Exhibition. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum. Los Angeles, 1949, p. 93, no. 44 (ill.). [W. Suida considered picture to be de'Conti] Masterpieces of Art in Memory of W.R. Valentiner. Exh. cat., North Carolina Museum of Art. Raleigh, 1959, pp. 25, 51, no. 27 (ill.). Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 28. Berenson, B. 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. 47. [as "Gentleman of the Trivulzio Family"]. Oberhuber, Konrad. “Raphael and the State Portrait II: The Portrait of Lorenzo de’ Medici,” Burlington Magazine 113, no. 821 (August 1971): pp. 436-443; pp. 442, 443 note 21 (fig. 13). Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972, p. 55. [as attributed to de'Conti] Trutty-Coohill, P. "Studies in the School of Leonardo da Vinci: Paintings in Public Collections in the United States with a Chronology of the Activity of Leonardo and his Pupils and Catalogue of Auction Sales." Unpublished Ph.D. diss, Pennsylvania State University, 1982, p. 136. Fiorio, Maria Teresa. "Per il ritratto lombardo: Bernardino de' Conti." Arte Lombarda 68-69 (1984): pp. 38-52 (fig. 16) [as "Portrait of a Senator"] Passoni, Maria Christina. "La ritrattistica di Bernardino de Conti. Alcune precisazioni sulla committenza." In Le Duché de Milan et les commanditaires français (1499 – 1521), eds. Elsig, Frédéric and Mauro Natale. Rome, 2013, pp. 160–65, 174, fig. 10 (ill.), pl. VIII (ill.).

Bernardino dei Conti, Gentleman of the Trivulzio Family, between 1450 and 1528, oil on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 38.80.