id: 127571 accession number: 1950.250 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.250 updated: 2025-07-10 20:11:52.453000 Portrait of a Man, Possibly Girolamo Rosati, 1533–34. Lorenzo Lotto (Italian, 1480–1556). Oil on canvas; framed: 135.9 x 128 x 8.6 cm (53 1/2 x 50 3/8 x 3 3/8 in.); unframed: 108.2 x 100.5 cm (42 5/8 x 39 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, 1950.250 title: Portrait of a Man, Possibly Girolamo Rosati title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1533–34 creation date earliest: 1533 creation date latest: 1534 current location: 118 Italian Renaissance creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 16th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Lorenzo Lotto (Italian, 1480–1556) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 135.9 x 128 x 8.6 cm (53 1/2 x 50 3/8 x 3 3/8 in.); Unframed: 108.2 x 100.5 cm (42 5/8 x 39 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right: ".L. Lotus 15[...]" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Venetian Tradition opening date: 1956-11-08T05:00:00 The Venetian Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 8, 1956-January 1, 1957). title: In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. opening date: 1958-03-04T05:00:00 In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958). title: The Renaissance Image of Man and the World opening date: 1961-10-27T04:00:00 The Renaissance Image of Man and the World. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 27, 1961). title: Art and Humanism in the Renaissance opening date: 1962-01-23T05:00:00 Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962). title: Major Masters of the Renaissance, A Loan Exhibition of the Poses opening date: 1963-05-03T04:00:00 Major Masters of the Renaissance, A Loan Exhibition of the Poses. The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA (organizer) (May 3-June 9, 1963). title: Style, Truth and the Portrait opening date: 1963-10-01T04:00:00 Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963). title: Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the time of Bellini, Dürer, and Titian opening date: 1999-09-05T00:00:00 Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the time of Bellini, Dürer, and Titian. Palazzo Grassi spa, 30124 Venice, Italy (organizer) (September 5, 1999-January 9, 2000). title: Lorenzo Lotto opening date: 2011-02-25T00:00:00 Lorenzo Lotto. Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy (organizer) (February 25-June 12, 2011). title: Lorenzo Lotto, Portraits opening date: 2018-06-18T04:00:00 Lorenzo Lotto, Portraits. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain (organizer) (June 18-September 30, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (1933-1939) (lent by Bruikleen von Ofenheim).', 'opening_date': '1933-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Italiaansche Kunst in Nederlandsche bezit. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (May 11-October 1, 1934).', 'opening_date': '1934-05-11T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Imperial collection, Vienna; date: footnotes: citations: - 1923 Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna, Austria), sold to Moritz Lindemann, 1923; date: footnotes: citations: 1923 Moritz Lindemann (Vienna, Austria),sold to Wilhelm von Ofenheim, 1923; date: footnotes: citations: 1923 - 1930 Wilhelm von Ofenheim, 1860-1930 (Vienna, Austria), upon his death, held in trust by his heirs, 1930; date: footnotes: citations: 1930 - 1939 Von Ofenheim family trust, sold to Rosenberg and Stiebel, 1939; date: footnotes: citations: [Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1950. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Thieme, Ulrich, Felix Becker, Fred. C. Willis, and Hans Vollmer. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig, Germany: W. Engelmann, 1907. page number: Reproduced: vol. XXIII, 412 url: Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places. Oxford, United Kingdom : The Clarendon Press, 1932. page number: Reproduced: p. 312 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 367; Mentioned: p. 366-368 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” January 4, 1951, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4558 Francis, Henry. "Venetian Art and Its Field of Influence." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 38, no. 2 (February 1951): 21-27, 30-35, 38-40 page number: Mentioned: p. 22-23; Reproduced: p. 38, 47 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141687 Banti, Anna. Lorenzo Lotto di Anna Banti. Firenze, Italy: Sansoni, 1953. page number: Mentioned: p. 39; Reproduced: p. 82, pl. 159 url: Coletti, Luigi. Lotto. Bergamo, Italy: Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche, 1953. page number: Reproduced: p. 45, pl. 117 url: Pignatti, Teresio. Lorenzo Lotto; 147 tavole in nero, 4 tavole a colori. Milano, Italy: Mondadori, 1953. page number: Reproduced: p. 120, pl. 93 url: Berenson, Bernard. Lotto. Milano, Italy: Electa Editrice, 1955. page number: Reproduced: p. 126, pl. 172 url: Berenson, Bernard. Lorenzo Lotto. London, United Kingdom: Phaidon Press, 1956. page number: Reproduced: p.94, pl. 172, 172a url: Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance; A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places. Venetian School. New York, NY: Phaidon Publishers; distributed by Garden City Books, 1957. page number: Reproduced: p. 101, vol. 1 url: Francis, Henry S. "Portraits by Lorenzo Lotto." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XLIV, (1957): 44. page number: Reproduced: p. 44 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 413 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n76 Milliken, William Mathewson. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York, NY: H.N. Abrams, 1958. page number: Reproduced: p. 34 url: Cappi Bentivegna, Ferruccia. Abbigliamento e costume nella pittura italiana; rinascimento. Roma, Italy: Bestetti, Edizioni d'arte, 1962. page number: Reproduced: p. 236. fig. 333 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 97 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n121 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 97 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n121 Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. page number: Mentioned: p. 112, 521, 574 url: L'opera completa del Lotto. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli, 1975. page number: Reproduced: p. 107; Mentioned: p. 108 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 106 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n126 Caroli, Flavio. Lorenzo Lotto et la nascita della psicologia moderna. Milano, Italy: Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, 1980. page number: Mentioned: p. 264; Reproduced: p. 265 url: "1993 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 6 (1994): 143-218. page number: Mentioned: p. 170; Reproduced p. 148 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161457 Brown, David Alan, Peter Humfrey, Mauro Lucco, and Augusto Gentili. Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance. Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 1997. page number: Reproduced: p. 47, fig. 6 url: Aikema, Bernard, Beverly Louise Brown, and Giovanna Nepi Scirè. Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the Time of Bellini, Dürer, and Titian. Milano, Italy: Bompiani, 1999. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 384-385 url: Rossi, Francesco. Bergamo, l'altra Venezia: il Rinascimento negli anni di Lorenzo Lotto, 1510-1530. Milano, Italy: Skira, 2001. page number: Reproduced: p. 57, fig. 13 url: Dezuanni, Elsa, Eugenio Manzato, and Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa. Lorenzo Lotto: emozioni nascoste. Crocetta del Montello, Treviso, Italy: Antiga, 2011. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 224-225 url: Frangi, Francesco and Maria Cristina Passoni. Attorno a Lotto: Naturalismo e Psicologia nel Ritratto Rinascimentale. Milano: Skira, 2017. page number: Reproduced: p. 30, fig. 8 url: Dal Pozzolo, Enrico Maria. Lorenzo Lotto:Il Richiamo delle Marche: Luoghi, Tempi e Persone. Milano: Skira, 2018. page number: Mentioned: p. 75; Reproduced: p. 76, fig. 5 url: Dal Pozzolo, E. M. "Two Paitnings of Samson by Lorenzo Lotto at Charlecote Park." The Burlington Magazine 160. no. 1385 (Aug. 2018): 640-645. page number: Mention: p. 26 url: Dossier de l'art. "Exposition a Londres: Lorenzo Lotto Portraitiste." Dossier de l'art 264, (Nov. 2018): 4-13. page number: Reproduced: p. [4-5], 12 url: du Bourg, Alexis Marle. "Lorenzo Lottoe Portaitiste." Dossier De L'Art, 364 (November 2018): 4-13. page number: Reproduced: pp. 4-5, 12. url: Pozzolo, Enrico Maria Dal. Lorenzo Lotto: Portraits. Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2018. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 29, p. 42, 284-286 url: Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952. page number: Reproduced: p. 54 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1952 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.250/1950.250_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.250/1950.250_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.250/1950.250_full.tif