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Portrait of a Man
ca. 150812 3/4 x 10 1/4 in. (32.4 x 26 cm)
Vincenzo di Biagio Catena
Italy (ca. 1470 - 1531)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Oil on panel
Credit Line:
Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
1949.64
Location: Currently on view
Vicenzo Catena was active a generation after Hans Memling, the Northern Renaissance artist who inspired Kehinde Wiley’s contemporary portrait nearby. Despite a difference of 500 years in the creation of Catena’s and Wiley’s portraits, the similarities are striking. Both are three-quarter profiles of young men of their day, set in a distant landscape. The sitters are linked not by social status but by their stillness and intensity of gaze, and by their immediate relationship to the viewer.
Catena’s patrons were primarily members of the aristocratic and wealthy classes of Venice, Italy, of which the sitter for "Portrait of a Young Man" was certainly a member. The portrait’s aesthetic appeal derives from the simple, crisp composition; high level of craftsmanship; strong characterization of the sitter; and fluid use of brilliant and contrasting oil glazes.
[Hawks Gallery reinstallation, summer 2019]
Catena’s patrons were primarily members of the aristocratic and wealthy classes of Venice, Italy, of which the sitter for "Portrait of a Young Man" was certainly a member. The portrait’s aesthetic appeal derives from the simple, crisp composition; high level of craftsmanship; strong characterization of the sitter; and fluid use of brilliant and contrasting oil glazes.
[Hawks Gallery reinstallation, summer 2019]
Provenance
Queen Charlotte of Württemberg, Germany (1766-1828), as by Giovanni Bellini; Royal Gallery, Württemberg, Germany; Julius Böhler, Munich, and Lucerne Fine Art Company, Lucerne, Switzerland (dealers), by 1926; Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York (dealers), by 1933; their sale ("C. S. Wadsworth Trust"), Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, December 11, 1948, lot 39; Julius Weitzner, New York (dealer); Edwin D. Levinson, New York (1876-1954); purchased from Levinson through Caesar R. Diorio, New York (dealer) by the Gallery in 1949
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Arts of the Italian Renaissance Memorial Art Gallery 1/8/1931 - 2/8/1931
- The Sixteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: Italian Paintings of the XIV to X 3/8/1933 - 3/30/1933
- Venetian Painting California Palace of the Legion of Honor 6/25/1938 - 7/24/1938
- Masterpieces of Art from Europe and America The Detroit Institute of Arts 4/1/1941 - 5/31/1941
- European Paintings from the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery 1/15/1967 - 9/30/1967
- Contrasts/Comparisons 9/28/1973 - 10/28/1973
- Treasures from Rochester Memorial Art Gallery 4/14/1977 - 5/28/1977
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Scope: Reproduction only. Susan Dodge Peters, ed. Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection. New York, New York: Memorial Art Gallery in association with Hudson Hills Press, 1988.
- Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995.
- Article Scope: Reproduction only. Rochester Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Handbook. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1961.
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Denys Sutton. Treasures from Rochester: Exhibited at Wildenstein Galleries, New York, April 14-May 28, 1977: Summary Catalogue. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1977.
- Article Scope: Advertisement. Art News. Volume Number: XXIV, Issue Number: 36. Issue Date: June 12, 1926.
- Memorial Art Gallery. ARTiculate. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2000--.
- Article Scope: Entry. Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972.
- Article Scope: Entry. The Detroit Institute of Arts. The Sixteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: Italian Paintings of the XIV to XVI Century. Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1933.
- Annual Report. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery
- Article Scope: Mention. Raimond van Marle. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. , 1936. Volume Number: XVIII
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Giles Robertson. Vincenzo Catena. Edinburgh: University Press, 1954.
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Fritz Heinemann. Giovanni Bellini e I Belliniani. Venice, Italy: N. Pozza, 1962.
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Exhibition of Venetian Painting. San Francisco, CA: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1938.
- From the Annual Report. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, June, 1949.
- Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Bernard Berenson. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. New York, NY: Phaidon Publishers, Inc., 1957. Volume Number: Venetian School, vol. I
- Masterpieces of Art from European and American Collections. Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1941.
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