Portrait of a Man

between 1482 and 1525

Franciabigio Italian, 1482-1525

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Title Portrait of a Man

Artwork Date between 1482 and 1525

Artist Franciabigio

Life Dates 1482-1525

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. Unknown

Medium Oil on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 23 × 19 5/16 inches (58.4 × 49 cm) Framed: 32 5/16 × 28 inches (82 × 71.1 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Sir Joseph Duveen

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. 28.133

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, recto: FRAC [monogram] ASM Inscribed, verso: [unidentified coat of arms,painted]

Provenance

until ca. 1902, Palazzo Panciatichi (Florence, Italy). until 1924, Collection Robert and Evelyn Benson (London, England)

1924-1928, Collection Sir Joseph Duveen (London, England)

1928-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Winter Exhibitions. Exh. cat., Burlington House. London, 1902, no. 39.

Cust, L. Les Arts. (October 1907): p. 28 (ill.).

Berenson, B. Florentine Painters of the Renaissance. New York, 1908, p. 134. [cited in checklist, as "Portrait of a Young Man" by Franciabigio]

Crowe, J. and G.B. Cavalcaselle. A History of Painting in Italy. Umbria, Florence, and Siena. New York, 1914, vol. 6, p. 132 note 5, 195 note 2.

Catalogue of Italian Pictures at 16, South Street, Park Lane, London, and Burckhurst in Sussex, collected by Robert and Evelyn Benson. London, 1914, p. 71, no. 37 (ill.).

Venturi, A. Storia dell'arte italiana. Milan, 1925, vol. 9:1, p. 452.

Art News 27, 10 (1928): p. 12.

Heil, W. "A Portrait by Franciabiagio." Bulletin of the DIA 10, 3 (December 1928): pp. 36-38 (ill.).

Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 10, no. 5 (February 1929): pp. 63 (ill.).

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, no. 77 (ill.).

Venturi, Lionello. Pitture italiane in America. Milan, 1931, no. 340 (ill.).

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance; a list of the principal artists and their works, with an index of places. Oxford, 1932, p. 210.

Berenson, B. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 180.

Goldscheider, L. Five Hundred Self-Portraits. Vienna, 1937, p. 22 (pl. 102). [cited as self-portait by Franciabiagio]

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 48, no. 77.

Richardson, E.P. Masterpieces of Painting and Sculpture from the DIA. Detroit, 1949, p. 60 (ill.). [gives wrong accession number]

Bacchiacca and his Friends. Exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, 1961, p. 46, no. 30 (ill.). [as self-portrait by Franciabigio]

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florence School. London, 1963, vol. I, p. 65.

Santoro, F.S. "Per il Franciabigio." Paragone (Arte) 163 (1963): p. 18 (pl. 31).

Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 41. [as "Portrait of a Man"]

Freedberg, S. J. Andrea del Sarto. Cambridge, 1963, vol. II, p. 238. [indirect reference, cited under "Untraceable Attributed Paintings" as "Self-Portrait of Andrea, formerly in Palazzo Panciatichi, Florence. Does not mention picture in connection with DIA]

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 1972. [as "Portrait of a Man" by Franciabigio]

McKillop, S.R. Franciabigio. Berkeley, 1974, pp. 191-192. [as attributed to Franciabigio]

Costamagna, P. & A. Fabre. "Di alcuni problemi della bottega di Andrea del Sarto." Paragone 491, 25 (January 1990): pp. 15-28. [DIA picture as Francesco Salviati self-portrait; attribution on stylistic grounds]

Costamagna, P. "Francesco Salviati (1510-1563), peintre et dessinateur de portraits: une nouvelle attribution pour le Luthiste du musèe Jacquemart-Andre." Revue du Louvre 5-6 (December 1991): p. 30 note 17. [DIA picture as by Francesco Salviati]

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