ERCOLE DE' ROBERTI (FERRARA C. 1451-1496)
ERCOLE DE' ROBERTI (FERRARA C. 1451-1496)
ERCOLE DE' ROBERTI (FERRARA C. 1451-1496)
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ERCOLE DE' ROBERTI (FERRARA C. 1451-1496)

Portrait of Filippo Beroaldo (1453-1505), bust-length, in a black hat

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ERCOLE DE' ROBERTI (FERRARA C. 1451-1496)
Portrait of Filippo Beroaldo (1453-1505), bust-length, in a black hat
with identifying inscription 'PHILIPPVS BEROALDVS' (upper center)
oil on panel, with the original painted reverse
14 5⁄8 x 10 5⁄8 in. (37.1 x 27 cm.)
Provenance
(Probably) Sir Richard Westmacott (1775-1856), London; his sale, Christie's, London, 11 March 1825, lot 22, as 'Pourbus' (1 gn. to Johnson).
Charles Fairfax-Murray (1849-1919), London.
Dr. Albert Figdor (1843-1927), Vienna, by 1894; his deceased sale, Paul Cassirer and Hugo Helbing, Berlin, 29 September 1930 (=1st day), lot 27, for 42,000 Reichsmarks to the following,
Jacques Goudstikker (1897-1940), Amsterdam (inv. no. 2671), by whom sent or taken to London prior to May 1940, subsequently stored at Smith College, Northampton, MA, and returned to the following after 1945,
Dési Goudstikker (1912-1996), New York.
with Blumka Gallery, New York, and by whom sold,
[Property from the Private Collection and Gallery of the Blumka Estate], Sotheby's, New York, 11 January 1996, lot 57, as Ambrogio de Predis, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
T. von Frimmel, Kleine Galeriestudien, IV, Gemälde in der Sammlung Albert Figdor in Wien, Leipzig, 1896, p. 8, illustrated.
R. van Marle, 'La pittura all'esposizione d'arte antica italiana di Amsterdam', Bollettino d’Arte, XXVIII, no. 10, April 1935, pp. 453 and 455, fig. 15, as Ambrogio de Predis.
A. Severi, 'Il volto sfuggente del ‘Commentatore Bolognese’: Filippo Beroaldo il Vecchio tra parole e immagini', La letteratura italiana e le arti, Atti del XX Congresso dell'ADI, Naples, 2018, pp. 6-8, illustrated, as Ercole de' Roberti.
Exhibited
Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Nouvelles Acquisitions de la Collection Goudstikker, November 1930-January 1931, no. 55, as Ambrogio de Predis.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Italiaansche Kunst in Nederlandsch Bezit, July-October 1934, no. 300, as Ambrogio de Predis (loaned by Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker N.V., Amsterdam).
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Tentoonstelling van Oude Kunst uit het Bezit van den Internationalen Handel, 1936, no. 126, as Ambrogio de Predis (loaned by Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker, N.V., Amsterdam).

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