Profile portrait of a man in profile to the left

Details

AFTER JACOPO BELLINI (VENICE 1396-1470)
Profile portrait of a man in profile to the left
pen and brown ink, gray wash, watermark fleur-de-lys on three mounts
12 1⁄8 x 8 1⁄8 in. (30.8 x 20.7 cm)

Provenance

Private collection.
with Wildenstein & Co., New York (Timeless Master Drawings, London 1955, no. 5, as Jacopo Bellini).
Lester Francis Avnet (1913-1970), New York and Kings Point, Long Island.
Private collection.

Literature

'Review of Timeless Master Drawings at Wildenstein & Co.', Art News, LIV, no. 8 (December 1955), p. 51.
'From Jacopo Bellini to Courbet and Renoir. Fine European Drawings from Many Centuries', Illustrated London News, October 15, 1960, p. 658, ill.

Exhibited

London, Wildenstein & Co., Drawings by the Masters, XVth to XIXth Centuries,1960, no. 2 (as Jacopo Bellini).
Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, May 1965 (without catalogue).
West Palm Beach, Norton Gallery and School of Art, and elswhere, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Francis Avnet, 1969-1970, no. 3 (as Jacopo Bellini).

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Lot Essay

This drawing reproduces, with minor variations, a portrait by Jacopo Bellini in the Louvre, Paris (RF 1490,23; see B. Degenhart and A. Schmitt, Jacopo Bellini. The Louvre Album of Drawings, New York, 1984, p. 23). Bellini’s drawing is executed in silverpoint on vellum and is part of his famous album of drawings. The identity of the sitter is not known.

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