PAOLO CALIARI, IL VERONESE* (1528-1588)

Details

PAOLO CALIARI, IL VERONESE* (1528-1588)

Portrait of a young Man, bust length, wearing a striped costume with a white ruff, his right hand resting on a gold chain around his neck

oil on canvas
20 1/8 x 15¾in. (51.2 x 40cm.)

Provenance

Baron Detlev von Hadeln, Venice, until 1926
with Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, until 1927
Robert W. Reford, Montreal, until 1950(?)
with Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, from whom purchased by the museum in 1954

Literature

F.J. Mather, Jr., An Exhibition of Venetian Paintings, The Arts, 10, Dec. 1926, p. 310, illustrated
D. von Hadeln, Some Portraits by Paolo Veronese, Art in America, 15, 1927, pp. 251-252, illustrated p. 247
L. Venturi, Italian Paintings in America, 1933, pl. 569
G. Fiocco, Paolo Veronese, 1934, pp. 126, 138, pl. LXIXa
H.B. Wehle, Catalogue of Italian, Spanish & Byzantine Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1940, p. 206
G.M. Richter, An Unknown Portrait by Paolo Veronese, Art in America, 30, January 1942, p. 39, note 3
New Acquisitions, The Art Quarterly, 18, 1955, p. 86, illustrated
W.R. Valentiner and P. Wescher, The J. Paul Getty Museum Guidebook, 1956, 2nd ed., p. 20, no. 16, note 6, illustrated
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, 1957, I, p. 136
B. Frederickson, Handbook of the Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1965, p. 13, pl. 4
J.P. Getty, The Joys of Collecting, 1965, pp. 31 and 107, illustrated, entry by Julius Held
G. Piovene and R. Marini, L'opera completa del Veronese, 1968, p. 108, no. 111b
S. Béguin and R. Marini, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Veronese, 1970, p. 108, no. 111b
B. Fredericksen, Catalogue of the Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1972, p. 36, no. 37
B. Frederickson and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, 1972, p. 39
T. Pignatti, Veronese, 1976, I, p. 122, no. 110; II, fig. 348
D. von Hadeln, Paolo Veronese, 1978, pp. 104, 156-157, 160, fig. 127, ed. Gunther Scheikhart

Exhibited

New York, Thos. Agnew & Sons, Inc., An Exhibition of Paintings by Old Masters of the Venetian School, Nov. 18- Dec. 31, 1926, no. 10, as a portrait of Count Porti
Birmingham, Alabama, Veronese and his Studio in North American Collections, Oct. 1- Nov. 15, 1972, illustrated p. 26

Lot Essay

The same youth appears accompanied by a greyhound in a full length portrait in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. According to the Martinengo family of Brescia who at one time owned the Metropolitan picture, the boy portrayed is a Colleoni. The Colleoni and Martinengo families were related by marriage (Wehle, loc. cit.)