This is an early work by Alessandro Bonvicino, known as Moretto da Brescia, who, along with Girolamo Romanino, was the dominant painter in the city of Brescia (then in the westernmost area of Venice’s mainland empire) in the first half of the sixteenth century
Brescia, 1898, p. 108 [see Ref. Begni Redona 1988]. P[ietro]. d[a] P[onte].
For over a century scholars have considered whether or not this sympathetic portrait of an old man is a self-portrait by El Greco. Lafond (1906) described the seemingly Romantic notion as at best a plausible hypothesis, and a number of more recent scholars (for example, Wethey 1962) have rejected the idea, mainly on the basis of comparisons with presumed self-portraits inserted by El Greco into several of his major religious pictures (see also Christiansen 2003)
Manuel B. CossÃo. El Greco.
Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1928. p. 40. Lamm, Carl Johan.
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1940. no. 168, p. 53. Freeman, Margaret B.
B 5095), and the Antikenmuseum, Kassel, Germany (inv.
Said to have come from Alexandria (von Bothmer and d’Harnoncourt 1950, p. 9, no.
1972.118.95 Said to have come from Alexandria (von Bothmer and d’Harnoncourt 1950, p.
Between 1878 and 1895, acquired by Julien Gréau; before 1903, acquired by John Pierpont Morgan (as part of the Gréau glass collection); until 1913, collection of John Pierpont Morgan, New York; 1913-1917, estate of J
× 1 5/16 in. (6.1 × 5 × 3.4 cm) Height (.a): 2 1/2 in. (6.3 cm) Height (.b): 15
Two Ceramic Tiles (nos. 02.5.91 and 1971.235.2)Major renovations undertaken about 1578 in the private quarters (or harem) of Istanbul’s Topkapı Palace during the reign of Sultan Murad III (r
B. Osgood Field, New York (until 1902; gifted to MMA) Denny, Walter B.
B[ryson]. B[urroughs]. "Principal Accessions."
Recent studies of Van Gogh’s canvas supports, undertaken by the Thread Count Automation Project in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum, have used thread count and weave pattern to identify canvases cut from the same bolt
–B. de La Faille. "Unbekannte Bilder von Vincent van Gogh."
