Portrait of a Man, 16th century

  • Bartolommeo Veneto, Italian, 1500-1555

Oil on cradled wood panel (transferred)

  • Unframed: 32 1/4 × 26 inches (81.9 × 66.1 cm)
  • 43 3/4 × 37 1/4 × 4 inches (111.1 × 94.6 × 10.2 cm)

Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence P. Fisher

68.297

until ca. 1928, collection of Baron Lazzaroni (Paris, France)

1928, (Howard Young, New York, New York, USA)

1930, Lawrence P. Fisher (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1968-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Heil, W. "The Lawrence P. Fisher Collection in Detroit," Antiquarian, vol. 15 (December 1930): pp. 45-46, 108-110, esp. pp. 45-46, (repr.). Loan Exhibition of Italian Paintings from the XIV to XVI Century. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, March 8-30, 1933, unpaginated, cat. 101, (repr.) [lent by Lawrence P. Fisher]. Hevesy, A. de. "Um Bartolomeo Veneto," Pantheon, vol. 7 (June 1931): pp. 224-233, esp. p. 227, (repr.) [owned by Howard Young Gallery, NY]. Michalski, E. "Zur Stilkritik des Bartolomeo Veneto," Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, vol. 65 (1931-32): pp. 177-84, esp. p. 182. Venturi, L. Italian Paintings in America. New York, 1933, p. 478, no. 478, (repr.). Sixteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters, Italian Paintings from the 14th to 16th Century. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1933, cat. 101, (repr.). Berenson, B. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 44 [as "Portrait of a Gentleman," in L.P. Fisher Collection]. Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, vol. 1. London, 1957, p. 11 [as "Half-length of Gentleman"]. Bassi, E. "Bartolomeo Veneto." In Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, A.M. Ghisalberti, ed. Rome, 1931-32, pp. 782-84, esp. p. 783. Gilbert, C. "Bartolomeo Veneto and his Portrait of a Lady," Bulletin of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, no. 22 (1973): pp. 2-16, esp. p. 12, note 6. Hackenbroch, Y. Enseignes. Florence, 1996, p. [?]. Pagnotta, L. Bartolomeo Veneto: l'opera completa. Florence, 1997, pp. 87-88, cat. A.17, (fig. 113) [as among uncertain or rejected works by artist].

Bartolommeo Veneto, Portrait of a Man, 16th century, oil on cradled wood panel (transferred). Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence P. Fisher, 68.297.