id: 152263 accession number: 1985.143 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.143 updated: 2023-03-14 12:01:25.543000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1620 creation date earliest: 1615 creation date latest: 1625 current location: 210A Armor Court creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 17th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Tanzio da Varallo (Italian, c1575/80–1635) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Tanzio da Varallo. Realismo fervore e contemplazione in un pittore del Seicento opening date: 2000-04-13T00:00:00 Tanzio da Varallo. Realismo fervore e contemplazione in un pittore del Seicento. Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italy (April 13-July 16, 2000). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd., London. 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, no. 32, ill. * CMA, 1986: Year in Review 1985, no. 48. --- PROVENANCE Antoine Pereira, Geneva date: Until 11 January 1984 footnotes: *
The Pereira provenance was provided to Matthiesen by the Paris-based dealer Giorgio Balboni, but has not been verified. 
citations: (acquired by Matthiesen Fine Art, London [stock nr. 8260], in partnership with Giorgio Balboni and one other) date: January 11, 1984 footnotes: citations: (Matthiesen Fine Art, London, by whom sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1985 footnotes: *
 The painting was first published in the 1985 Matthiesen exhibition catalogue, Around 1610: The Onset of the Baroque (no. 32).
citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1985- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Dashing accessories enliven this portrait, including a rapier with an elegantly spiraling guard, produced exclusively in North Italy between 1570 and 1600. digital description: wall description: This portrait of an unknown man includes a detailed representation of a rapier, a sword worn with civilian dress and used in duels. On the basis of style, the rapier in this painting belonged to a distinctive group of sword hilts decorated between about 1570 and 1600. It was probably made in northern Italy.The son of a Piedmontese architect, Tanzio spent most of his life in northern Italy, but worked briefly in Rome and southern Italy, mainly Naples. These trips brought him under the influence of Caravaggio, whose dramatic realism Tanzio integrated into his own elegant, decorative style. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS
Townsend, Richard P., in Marco Bona Castellotti et al.,Tanzio da Varallo: realismo, fervore e contemplazione in un pittore del Seicento. Exh. cat. Milan, Palazzo Reale; published by Milan: F. Motta, 2000.
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Patrick Matthiesen, letter to Ann Tzeutschler Lurie, Aug. 12, 1985, in CMA curatorial file.
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Patrick Matthiesen, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 15, 2014, in CMA curatorial file.
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Patrick Matthiesen, email to Betsy Wieseman, Feb. 1, 2019, in CMA curatorial file.
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Patrick Matthiesen, email to Betsy Wieseman, Feb. 1, 2019, in CMA curatorial file.
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Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd. 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. London: Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd. (in association with Stair Sainty Matthiesen, New York), 1985.
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Patrick Matthiesen, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 15, 2014, in CMA curatorial file.
page number: url: Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd. 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. 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 url: Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 234 url: Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Reproduced: p. 114 url: Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: p. 132 url: Townsend, Richard P., in Marco Bona Castellotti et al.,Tanzio da Varallo: realismo, fervore e contemplazione in un pittore del Seicento. Exh. cat. Milan, Palazzo Reale; published by Milan: F. Motta, 2000. page number: Mentioned: pp. 124-125; reproduced p. 126, no. 26 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.143/1985.143_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.143/1985.143_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.143/1985.143_full.tif