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Bust of a Nobleman in Armor
Attributed to Pietro Tacca (Italian, 1577–1640)LinkedCulture matchlcp-21848a883798
- Date
- c. 1610
- Medium
- Marble
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 22278
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
This portrait bust of an unknown nobleman in armor, sporting the stiff ruff characteristic of men’s fashion in Europe in the first quarter of the 17th century, was once thought to portray the Genoese aristocrat Ambrogio Spinola or an anonymous naval officer. Previously attributed to the French Mannerist sculptor Germain Pilon (1535–1590), it currently bears an attribution to Pietro Tacca, court sculptor to the Medici grand dukes in the first half of the 17th century. However, the immediacy and supplely rendered flesh of this portrait suggest that it was executed by an artist associated with Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), the most famous Italian sculptor of the period.
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- Credit line
- Tillie C. Cohn Endowment
- Provenance
- Mrs. F. Gray Griswold (died 1940), New York, by 1940; sold, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15 February 1941, no. 16, to Joseph Brummer, New York [Brummer Index Card N6783 in The Cloisters Library and Archives, New York]; sold, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 8 June 1949, Part III of the Art Collection belonging to the Estate of the late Joseph Brummer, no. 410. Collection of Baron Cassel van Doorn (died 1952) and Baronness Cassel van Doorn, by 1952; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 9 April 1954, no. 86bis. Blumka Gallery, New York, by 1964; sold by Blumka Gallery to the Art Institute, 1964.
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- Object type
- AAT300301253
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