Portrait of a Gentleman

Provenance

Private collection, Warsaw [according to authentication documents supplied by the Van Diemen Galleries to Mr. and Mrs. William R. Timken, copy in curatorial file; Polish provenance is confirmed by the Warsaw customs seal on the stretcher]. Van Diemen Galleries, Berlin and New York, by 1926 [see opinion by August L. Mayer dated November 27, 1926 in documents cited above]; sold by Van Diemen Galleries to Mr. and Mrs. William R. Timken, New York, by 1929 [lent by them to New York 1929]; given to the Art Institute, 1951.

Exhibition history

New York, Van Diemen Galleries, Masterpieces of the Venetian School, February 25–March 16, 1929, no. 15.

Publications

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 294. Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 120, 526, 571. Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 140–42, ill. Maria Cristina Bagolan, Pietro Marescalchi 1522?–1589 ([Italy], 1993), pp. 14, 36, 111, fig. 4. Giuliana Ericani, “Lorenzo Luzzo, Pietro de Marascalchi ed il Cinquecento feltrino,” in Giuliana Ericani, ed., Pietro de Marascalchi: Restauri studi e proposte per il Cinquecento feltrino, exh. cat. (Museo Civico, Feltre, 1994), p. 138, fig. 60.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

Quick Overview

Artist: Pietro de Marescalchi (Italian, 1522-1589)
Date: c. 1545
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 115 × 95 cm (45 1/4 × 37 3/8 in.); Framed: 142.6 × 121.3 × 6.1 cm (56 1/8 × 47 3/4 × 2 3/8 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: oil on canvas
Style: sixteenth century
Place: Feltre
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Lillian S. Timken (Mrs. William S. Timken)
Accession no.: 1951.318

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