Portrait of a Gentleman

Private collection, Warsaw [according to authentication documents supplied by the Van Diemen Galleries to Mr. and Mrs. William R. Timken, copy in curatorial file

given to the Art Institute, 1951.

sold by Van Diemen Galleries to Mr. and Mrs. William R. Timken, New York, by 1929 [lent by them to New York 1929]

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

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]

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.

Maria Cristina Bagolan, Pietro Marescalchi 1522?–1589 ([Italy], 1993), pp. 14, 36, 111, fig. 4.

Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 140–42, ill.

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.