Details
Attributed to Johan Stephan da Calcar, called Giovanni da Calcar (Calcar 1499-1546/50 Naples)
Portrait of a bearded man, half-length, in a black doublet with crimson sleeves and a black hat, a dagger in his right hand and sword in his left, before a green curtain
oil on panel
42½ x 29¼ in. (125.5 x 61.3 cm.)
Provenance
Robert S. Holford, M.P., Dorchester House, by 1887, as Palma Vecchio,
and by descent to
Sir George T. Holford , K.C.V.O., C.I.E., C.B.E., C.V.O., Westonbirt, Gloucestershire; (+) Christie's, London, 15 July 1927, lot 31 as Giovanni da Calcar (2,300gns. to Buttery).
Horace Ayherst Buttery; (+) Sale, Christie's, London, 24 May 1963, lot 63.
Anon. Sale, Christie's, London, 5 July 1991, lot 83 as Attributed to Giovanni da Calcar.
with Colnaghi, New York, 1994.
Literature
The Holford Collection... selected from Twelve Illuminated Manuscripts at Dorchester House and One Hundred and Seven Pictures at Westonbirt in Gloucestershire, ed. R. Benson, 1924, p. 61, no. 42, and pl. XLV as Attributed to Giovanni da Calcar.
Exhibited
London, The Royal Academy, Royal Academy Exhibition of the Works of the Old Masters, 1887, no. 154, as Palma Vecchio.
London, New Gallery, Exhibition of Venetian Art, 1894-5, no. 194, as Palma Vecchio.
New York, Colnaghi, The Art of Pleasing, 1994, no. 1, as Attributed to Giovanni da Calcar.
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