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BARTOLOMEO PASSEROTTI (1529–1592)

Portrait of a Collector

Year 1570s
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 135 x 80 cm 53 1/8 x 31 1/2 in

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Provenance

Esterhazy collection, Hungary and Germany;

Sale, London, Sotheby’s, 19 January 1966, lot 28 (attributed to Giovanni Battista Moroni);

Sale, New York, Sotheby’s, 19 March 1981, lot 131 (attributed to Giovanni Battista Moroni);

Private collection, Milan.

Literature

L. D. Benati, ‘Una Lucrezia e altre proposte per Bartolomeo Passerotti’, in Paragone, 379, 1981, p. 31, fig. 42;

F. Porzio, Tre ritratti di Bartolomeo Passerotti, en Scritti di storia dell’arte in onore di Federico Zeri, I, Milan 1984, p. 43;

C. Franzoni, ‘“Rimembranze d’infinite cose”. Le collezioni rinascimentali di antichità’, in S. Settis (ed.), Memoria dell’antico nell’arte italiana, I, L’uso dei classici, Turin 1984, p. 302, fig. 104;

A. Ghirardi, ‘Bartolomeo Passerotti’, in V. Fortunati Pietrantonio (ed.), Pittura bolognese del ’500, II, Bologna 1986, p. 555;

C. Höper, Bartolomeo Passarotti (1529-1592), II, Worms 1987, p. 237, no. A 38;

D. Benati, in Antologia di pittura emiliana dal XVI al XVIII secolo, exh. cat., Milan 1988, no. 7;

A. Ghirardi, Bartolomeo Passerotti pittore (1529-1592). Catalogo generale, Rimini 1990, pp. 170-171, no. 20;

D. Benati in V. Sgarbi (ed.), L’inquietudine del volto. Da Lotto a Freud. Da Tiziano a De Chirico, exh. cat., Milan 2005, p. 151, no. 5 (reproduced on p. 36).

Exhibitions / Fairs

Bologna, Palacio Davia Bargellini, Antologia di pittura emiliana dal XVI al XVIII secolo, 5 - 27 November 1988;

Lodi, Bipitalia City, L’inquietudine del volto. Da Lotto a Freud. Da Tiziano a De Chirico, 12 November 2005 - 12 February 2006.

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Artwork Details

Portrait of a Collector by BARTOLOMEO PASSEROTTI — detail
Portrait of a Collector by BARTOLOMEO PASSEROTTI — detail
Portrait of a Collector by BARTOLOMEO PASSEROTTI — detail
Portrait of a Collector by BARTOLOMEO PASSEROTTI — detail
Portrait of a Collector by BARTOLOMEO PASSEROTTI — detail