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CIRCLE OF GENTILE BELLINI (VENICE 1429-1507)

Lot 187
21.10.2022 10:00UTC -04:00
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Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 818825
Lot 187 | CIRCLE OF GENTILE BELLINI (VENICE 1429-1507)
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 60 000
CIRCLE OF GENTILE BELLINI (VENICE 1429-1507)

Portrait of John VIII Palaeologus (1392-1448), bust-length, in profile

oil on panel

9 1/4 x 6 7/8 in. (23.5 x 17.2 cm.)





Provenance

with Thomas Agnew and Son, London, by 1920.

Han Coray (1880-1974), Berlin: his sale, Berlin, A. Wertheim, 1 October 1930, lot 30, as 'Venetian Master, circa 1520'.

with The Gallery of P. Jackson Higgs, New York; his sale, American Art Association, New York, 7-9 December 1932, lot 33, as 'Gentile Bellini' ($1,500 to William Fox).

Arthur Erlanger (1883-1967), New York.

with Piero Tozzi, New York.

Alice Tully (1902-1993), New York, by 1964; (†) her sale, Christie's, New York, 11 January 1995, lot 36, as 'School of Gentile Bellini',

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.



Literature

F. E. Washburn Freund, Der Cicerone, 1927, p. 243.

C. Burrows, 'Letter from New York,' Apollo, LXXVII, 1931, p. 314.

R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, XVII, The Hague, 1935, p. 173, note 1.

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, I, London and New York, 1957, p. 29, as the work of a close follower of Gentile Bellini.

F. Heinemann, Giovanni Bellini e i Belliniani, III, Venice, 1991, p. 119, fig, 227, as 'Per la pennellata non nulla a che vedere con Gentile Bellini, è dipinto infatti in modo molto più fluido e va datato intona al 1520. E possibile che si tratti qui di una copia tarda da un ritratto perduto del Pisanello'.



Exhibited

New York, American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, Important Paintings of Old and Modern Masters, 1931.
Artist:Gentile Bellini (1429 - 1507)
Applied technique:Oil on panel
Genre:Portrait
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
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