A Condottiere

Artists

Dimensions

sight: 83.8 x 74.3 cm (33 x 29 1/4 in.) framed: 101.8 x 92.5 x 7 cm (40 1/16 x 36 7/16 x 2 3/4 in.)

Provenance

? Cardinal Silvio Valenti Gonzaga, Villa Paolina, until 1756. [1]Wright Family, by descent; to Henry Smith Wright, Aveley Wood, Farnham, England, by 1878, sold [through his sale, Robinson, Fisher and Harding, London, November 7, 1929, lot 289 as by Giorgione]. [2] [Frederick Mont, New York], sold; to Edwin H. Abbot, 1949, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1966 Notes [1] According to the "Inventario dei quadri..., 1756, number 437 is described as "quadro di palmi 4 once 9 per altezza, e palmi 3 e mezzo per larghezza, rappresentante Ritratto vestito in Corazza, mezza figura in tela, del Dossi di Ferrara." [2]The 1929 catalogue notes: "The above pictures was originally in the Orleans Collection and is believed to have been purchased in the 18th century by an ancestor of the late owner," however, this is disputed by Felton Gibbons in the 1966-1967 "A Portrait by Dosso" in the Fogg Art Museum Acquisitions report.