Attributed to Bernardino de' Conti Pavia 1470 - circa 1523

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 USD

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Description

Bernardino de' Conti
Portrait of a Man
oil on panel

Provenance

Sir George Donaldson, London, circa 1899;
Ralph Brocklebank, Haughton Hall, Cheshire;
With van Diemen and Company (Jakob and Rosa Oppenheimer, proprietors), Berlin, by 1928;
Sale ("Die Bestände der Berliner Firmen Galerie Van Diemen & Co., GmbH; Altkunst Antiquitäten, GmbH; Dr. Otto Burchard & Co. GmbH sämtlich in Liquidation"), Berlin, Paul Graupe, January 25-26, 1935, lot 16 as Bernardino dei Conti (reproduced);
Private collection, Württenberg;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, June 24, 1964, lot 2 (as Bernardino de' Conti), there purchased by Weitzner;
Private Collection.

Exhibited

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Masters of the Milanese School, 1899;
Stuttgart, State Museum, Early Italian Panel Paintings (lent from a private collection Württenberg), May 13-June 25, 1950, p. 29, cat. no. 13;
Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Thirty-one Paintings from a Private Collection, 1952, no. 9 (as Bernardino de' Conti).

Literature

R. Radcliffe Carter, Pictures and Engravings at Haughton Hall, Tarporley, in the Possession of Ralph Brocklebank, London 1904, p. 16, no. 13 (as Bernardino de' Conti);
W. Suida, Leonardo und sein Kreis, Munich 1929, p. 281 (a list of works of Bernardino dei Conti, as owned by van Diemen, Berlin, 1928).