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About the Artwork
The Latin inscription gives the sitter's name and age (45), as well as the painting's date. Guarignoni came from a prominent family in the northern Italian city of Bergamo. His direct and thoughtful gaze enhances the painting’s lifelike quality, while the solemn detachment conveys dignity and excellence rather than an exact personality, a common approach in Renaissance portraiture.
Inscriptions
Inscribed at bottom: "VINCENT. GVARINON. AN. AET. XXXXV / MDLXXII"
Provenance
Count Leon Miniszech (sale: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 9-11, 1902, no. 23); [Agnew, London]; C. Fairfax Murray, London; [Julius Bohler, Munich, 1908]; Mr. and Mrs. Howard P. Eells, Cleveland, 1913; Maude Stager Eells, Cleveland (unsold, Parke Bernet, New York, November 29, 1961, no. 10, illus.), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962.
Exhibition history
Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962). Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984). Giovan Battista Moroni, The glance on reality. Museo Adriano Bernareggi, Bergamo, Italy (organizer) (November 13, 2004-April 3, 2005).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Moroni (Italian, 1525–1578)
- Date
- c. 1572
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 91 x 80 x 8 cm (35 13/16 x 31 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 63 x 50.8 cm (24 13/16 x 20 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of Adele C. and Howard P. Eells Jr., in memory of Howard Parmelee Eells
- Accession no.
- 1962.1
More by Giovanni Battista Moroni in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009781
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