Portrait of a Man (c. 1510s): Art, History and Details

Portrait of a Man (c. 1510s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Bartolomeo Veneto (Italian, 1531).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This young man is possibly a member of the Sforza household, the ruling family of Milan during the Renaissance. He wears a plaquette on his hat indicating his nobility and status. This medallion depicts an actual work by Andrea Riccio (1470–1532), an artist whose work is represented in the museum's collection. The medallion illustrates an allegory of fortune and virtue personified by a winged woman and a child.

Object facts

• Title: Portrait of a Man
• Date: c. 1510s
• Creator attribution: Bartolomeo Veneto (Italian, 1531)
• Culture: Italy
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on wood, transferred to wood
• Dimensions: Framed: 74.9 x 57.8 x 11.1 cm (29 1/2 x 22 3/4 x 4 3/8 in.); Unframed: 39.4 x 29.2 cm (15 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)
• Collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1940.539

Collection credit

Bequest of James Parmelee

Further reading listed by the museum

• Berenson, Bernard. Venetian Painting in America; The Fifteenth Century. New York, NY: F.F. Sherman, 1916.
• Francis, Henry S. "The Bequest of James Parmelee." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXVIII, no. 2 (February 1941): 16-21.
• Duveen Brothers, Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner, and Joseph Duveen Duveen. A Catalogue of Early Italian Paintings: Exhibited at the Duveen Galleries, New York, April to May, 1924. New York, NY: Priv. print,1926.

View the collection record

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