Andrea Previtali (c.1470/80-1528)

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Andrea Previtali (c.1470/80-1528)

Portrait of a young Gentleman, bust length, wearing a black cap and a black coat trimmed with ermine

signed, inscribed and dated 1506 on the reverse 'M CCCCCVI . ANDREIAS . BERGOMENSIS . DISSIPVLVS IOANNIS . BELINI . PINXIT .'
on panel

13 x 10 5/8in. (33 x 27cm.)

Provenance

(Probably) Sir James Palmer (d.1657), Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King James I and subsequently Gentleman-Usher of the Privy Chamber and Chancellor of the Order of the Garter to King Charles I
(Probably) Sir James Palmer, Cardinal Antonio Barberini and others Sale, Davis and Millington, London, 23 Nov. 1691, lot 97, as John Bellin; presumably unsold and by descent to
Lt. Col. P. D. S. Palmer; Christie's, 2 July 1976, lot 69 (#20,000)
Anon. Sale, Christie's, 11 Dec. 1984, lot 54

Literature

F. Heinemann, Giovanni Bellini e i Belliniani, III, Supplemento e Ampliamenti, Hildesheim, Zürich and New York, 1991, pp.52-3, no.S.375 bis, and fig.104

Lot Essay

Previtali consistently signed his work in this form in the years 1502-10, see P. Zampetti and I. Chiappini, Andrea Previtali, in I Pittori Bergamaschi dal XIII al XIX Secolo: Il Cinquecento I, Bergamo, 1975, p.89, p.138, under no.60, and p.145, fig.5

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