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Artist
Bartolomeo Veneto
Title
Portrait of a Lady in a Green Dress
Date
1530
Culture
Italian
Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
85.9 x 67.6 cm (33-7/8 x 26-5/8 in.)
Accession Number
1979:003
Credit Line
Bartolomeo Veneto, Portrait of a Lady in a Green Dress, 1530, oil on panel, 85.9 x 67.6 cm (33-7/8 x 26-5/8 in.), Putnam Foundation, Timken Museum of Art.
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Description
Only about 30 paintings survive by the great Venetian portraitist Bartolomeo Veneto, a contemporary of Titian, Veronese, and other masters of High Renaissance. This portrait, painted a year before the artist's death, shows the sitter standing in front of a red curtain. She is dressed in the height of fashion with a headpiece of human hair decorated with blue and gold ribbon, suggesting she was a lady of considerable status.
The artist signed and dated the work on the cartellino, or tag, attached to the dark red curtain.

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Provenance

Manfrin collection, Venice; Mr. Barker (according to Crowe and Cavalcaselle 1912); 5th earl of Rosebery, Mentmore Towers, by 1884, his sale, Sotheby’s, Mentmore Towers, May 25–26, 1977, lot 2407; Acquired by the Putnam Foundation, 1979

Literature

London, National Gallery, MS of 1851, "Inventory and Valuation of Pictures Made from the Manfrin Collection at Venice," no. 52; F. Zanotto,
Nuovissima guida di Venezia (Venice, 1856), p. 342; Mentmore, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1884), 1:68, no. 14; J.A. Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle,
A History of Painting in North Italy, 3 vols. (London, 1912), 1:299 Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School,
2 vols. (London, 1957), 1:12; Creighton Gilbert, "Bartolommeo Veneto and His Portrait of a Lady," National Gallery of Canada Bulletin 22 (1973): 3 1 7, 12 n. 5, :15 n. 16, fig. 3; Timken Art Gallery: European and American Works of Art in the Putnam Foundation Collection (San Diego, 1983), pp. 78-79, 124, no. 30, ill.

Note

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