id:			152263
accession number:	1985.143
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.143
updated:		2024-04-18 15:46:06.099000

Portrait of a Man, c. 1620. Tanzio da Varallo (Italian, c1575/80–1635). Oil on canvas; framed: 125 x 99.5 x 7 cm (49 3/16 x 39 3/16 x 2 3/4 in.); unframed: 97.8 x 72.2 cm (38 1/2 x 28 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1985.143

title:				Portrait of a Man
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creation date:			c. 1620
creation date earliest:		1615
creation date latest:		1625
current location:		210A Armor Court
creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture:	Italy, 17th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Tanzio da Varallo (Italian, c1575/80–1635)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 125 x 99.5 x 7 cm (49 3/16 x 39 3/16 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 97.8 x 72.2 cm (38 1/2 x 28 7/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Tanzio da Varallo. Realismo fervore e contemplazione in un pittore del Seicento
	opening date:   2000-04-13T00:00:00
	<i>Tanzio da Varallo. Realismo fervore e contemplazione in un pittore del Seicento</i>. Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italy (April 13-July 16, 2000).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd., London. <em>Around 1610: The Onset of the Baroque: an Exhibition in Aid of R.E.S.T., the Relief Society of Tigray</em>, 14th June to 16th August 1985, no. 32, ill.', 'opening_date': '1985-08-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, 1986: <em>Year in Review 1985</em>, no. 48.', 'opening_date': '1985-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Antoine Pereira, Geneva
	date: Until 11 January 1984
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			* <div><!--block-->The Pereira provenance was provided to Matthiesen by the Paris-based dealer Giorgio Balboni, but has not been verified.&nbsp;</div>
			
			
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	(acquired by Matthiesen Fine Art, London [stock nr. 8260], in partnership with Giorgio Balboni and one other)
	date: January 11, 1984
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	(Matthiesen Fine Art, London, by whom sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 1985
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			* <div><!--block-->&nbsp;The painting was first published in the 1985 Matthiesen exhibition catalogue, <em>Around 1610: The Onset of the Baroque </em>(no. 32).</div>
			
			
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
	date: 1985-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<div><!--block-->Townsend, Richard P., in Marco Bona Castellotti et al.,<em>Tanzio da Varallo: realismo, fervore e contemplazione in un pittore del Seicento</em>. Exh. cat. Milan, Palazzo Reale; published by Milan: F. Motta, 2000.</div>
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	<div><!--block-->Patrick Matthiesen, letter to Ann Tzeutschler Lurie, Aug. 12, 1985, in CMA curatorial file.</div>
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	<div><!--block-->Patrick Matthiesen, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 15, 2014, in CMA curatorial file.</div>
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	<div><!--block-->Patrick Matthiesen, email to Betsy Wieseman, Feb. 1, 2019, in CMA curatorial file.</div>
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	<div><!--block-->Patrick Matthiesen, email to Betsy Wieseman, Feb. 1, 2019, in CMA curatorial file.</div>
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	<div><!--block-->Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd. <em>Around 1610: The Onset of the Baroque : an Exhibition in Aid of R.E.S.T., the Relief Society of Tigray, 14th June to 16th August 1985</em>. London: Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd. (in association with Stair Sainty Matthiesen, New York), 1985.</div>
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	<div><!--block-->Patrick Matthiesen, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 15, 2014, in CMA curatorial file.</div>
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	Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd. <em>Around 1610: The Onset of the Baroque: an Exhibition in Aid of R.E.S.T., the Relief Society of Tigray</em>, 14th June to 16th August 1985. London: Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd. in association with Stair Sainty Matthiesen, New York, 1985.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp.111-112; reproduced: p. 113, no. 32
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	Chong, Alan. <em>European &amp; American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 234
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	Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 114
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	Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms &amp; Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
	page number: 	p. 132
	url:		

	Townsend, Richard P., in Marco Bona Castellotti et al.,<em>Tanzio da Varallo: realismo, fervore e contemplazione in un pittore del Seicento</em>. Exh. cat. Milan, Palazzo Reale; published by Milan: F. Motta, 2000.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 124-125; reproduced p. 126, no. 26
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