Young Man with a Beard

ca. 1555

Tintoretto Italian, 1519-1594

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Title Young Man with a Beard

Artwork Date ca. 1555

Artist Tintoretto

Life Dates 1519-1594

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. Venetian

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 18 × 14 1/2 inches (45.7 × 36.8 cm) Framed: 28 3/4 × 24 1/8 × 3 3/8 inches (73 × 61.3 × 8.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb

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. 53.360

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Marks Marked, verso, Agnew label: 6065 Marked, verso, Agnew label: 6587 Marked, verso, label: Tintoretto | An Unknown Man Marked, verso, stencil: 26059 Marked, verso, stencil: 459 Marked, verso, stencil: 6 [large] Marked, verso, label, partially hidden: Boen[...]

Provenance

until 1926, (Max Rothschild, Sackville Galleries, London, England)

1927, (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, England)

collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1953-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Fifth Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, October 1927, p. 20, cat. 19 [lent by Mr. & Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb-entry by W. Heil].

Heil, W. "The Edgar B. Whitcomb collection in Detroit," Art in America, vol. 16 (February 1928): pp. 49-58, esp. 49 [dates picture to c. 1560].

Heil, W. Catalogue of the works of art in the collection of Mr. & Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb. Detroit, 1931, pp. 10-11 [typescript].

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of The Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 558 [as in Whitcomb Collection].

Berenson, B. Pitture italiano del Rinascimento. Milano, 1936, p. 480 [as in Whitcomb Collection].

Bercken, E. von der. Die Gemälde des Jacopo Tintoretto. Munich, 1942, p. 108, no. 73.

Pallucchini, P. La Giovinezza del Tintoretto. Milan, 1950.

Richardson, E.P., ed. Catalogue of the Paintings and Sculpture given by Edgar B. Whitcomb and Anna Scripps Whitcomb to the DIA. Detroit, 1954, p. 103, (repr.).

Wescher, P. "I ritratti del Doge Girolamo Priuli di Jacopo Tintoretto," Arte veneta, vol. 11 (1957): pp. 205-207, esp. p. 207 [cited].

Berenson, B. "Italian Pictures of the Renaissance." In The Venetian School, vol. 1. London, 1957, p. 171.

Old Master Paintings. Exh. cat., Albion College. Albion, MI, December 2-16, 1959.

Paintings in the DIA: A checklist of paintings before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 107 [dates picture to ca. 1540-45].

Vecchi, P. de. L'opera completa del Tintoretto. Milan, 1969, p. 138, F 47, (repr.) [as attributed to Tintoretto].

Rossi, P. "Una recente pubblicazione sul Tintoretto ed il problema della sua ritrattistica," Arte veneta, vol. 23 (1969): pp. 265-70, esp. p. 268 [cited].

Benari, C. L'opera completa del Tintoretto. Milan, 1970, p. 138, cat. F 47, (repr.) [as attributed to Tintoretto].

Fredericksen, B. & F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 199.

Rossi, P. Jacopo Tintoretto: i ritratti. Venice, 1973, p. 103, (fig. 77) [dated to ca. 1553-55, as autograph].

Pallucchini, R. & P. Rossi. Tintoretto: Le opere sacre e profane. Milan, 1982, vol. 1, p. 56, (fig. F 77) [this image does not appear in either volume].

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