Prelate with an Hourglass

1519

Sebastiano del Piombo Italian, ca. 1485-1547

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Title Prelate with an Hourglass

Artwork Date 1519

Artist Sebastiano del Piombo

Life Dates ca. 1485-1547

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 canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 38 1/4 × 31 5/8 inches (97.2 × 80.3 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

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. 42.12

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Inscriptions Inscribed, in painting, on bookmark: A/1519

Provenance

from 17th century, Santa Croce Family (Rome, Italy)

until 1909, (Luigi Grassi, Florence, Italy)

1909-1910, (Knoedler & Co., New York, New York, USA)

1910-1929, (Collection J. Horace Harding, New York, New York, USA)

until 1941, by inheritance, collection of Mrs. J. Horace Harding

March 1, 1941, auctioned by (Parke-Bernet, New York, New York, USA), lot 53

(Mortimer Brandt, New York, New York, USA)

1942-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Venturi, L. Pitture italiane in America. Milan, 1931, no. 371.

Venturi, A. Storia dell'arte italiana, vol. 9, pt. 5. Milan, 1932, p. 1-82, esp. p. 82 [cited; in J. H. Harding coll.].

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 522 [in collection of Horace Harding, NY].

Venturi, L. Italian Paintings in America, vol. 3. New York, 1933, pl. 501 [in J. H. Harding coll., NY].

Gombosi, G. "Sebastiano del Piombo." In Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexicon der Bildenden Künstler. Leipzig, 1933, vol. 27, pp. 71-74, esp. p. 74 [cited; in J. H. Harding coll.; rejected attribution to Sebastiano].

Berenson, B. Pitture Italiane del Rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 449 [in collection of heirs of Horace Harding, NY].

Venetian Paintings of the XV and XVI Centuries. cat., Knoedler & Co. New York, 1938, no. 14 (repr. only).

O'Toole, James St. L. The Collection of the Late J. Horace Harding. New York, 1938, p. 8, (repr.).

Venetian Painting From the Fifteenth Century through the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Francisco, June 25-July 24, 1938 (unpaginated), cat. 55, (repr.) [lent by the Thornton Realty Company, NY].

Friedländer, W. "Review of exhibition: 'Venetian Paintings of the XV and XVI Centuries'," Art in America, vol. 26 (1938): pp. 127-132, esp. pp. 128, 131 [attribution to Sebastiano "highly problematic"].

Dussler, L. Sebastiano del Piombo. Basel, 1942, p. 154, cat. 95a [as in collection of H. Harding, NY; rejected attribution to Sebastiano].

Giorgione and his Circle. Exh. cat., Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, February 23 -March 21, 1942, p. 31, cat. 37, (repr.) [curated by M. Brandt].

Richardson, E.P. "Prelate with an Hour Glass by Sebastiano del Piombo," Bulletin of the DIA 23, no. 4 (January 1944): p. 30, (cover repr.).

Richardson, E.P., ed. DIA Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 120, no. 728, (repr.).

Longhi, R. Viatico per cinque secoli di pittura veneziana. Florence, 1946, p. 65 [cited].

Centenary Exhibition. Exh. cat., Coe College. Cedar Rapids, IA, 1952, no 3.

Exh. cat., University of Minnesota Art Museum. Minneapolis, 1952.

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, vol. 1. London, 1957, p. 163.

Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 98.

Frederickson, B. & F. Zeri. Census of pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 185 [as attributed to Sebastiano].

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Sebastiano del Piombo, Prelate with an Hourglass, 1519, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 42.12.