Portrait of a Young Man with a Turban

Artist Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi, called Fra Galgario (Italian, 1655–1743)

Datecirca 1720–1730

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions55 x 39 3/4 in. (139.7 x 101 cm)
Frame: 67 1/4 x 51 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. (170.8 x 130.8 x 9.5 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.54

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ProvenanceMarchese Enrico Visconti Venosta [1], Rome (by 1943) [Francesco Cataluccio, La Politica estera di E. Visconti Venosta, Firenze, 1940]; Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1950; given to NCMA, 1961.

[1] Visconti Venonsta is a noble Milanese family. Marchese Enrico Visconti-Venonsta lent the paintings (GL.60.17.53 and .54) to the exhibition Cinque pittori del Settecento, Antiquaria, Rome, April 1943, nos. 3 and 4 (catalogue by Alessandro Morandotti). The paintings were not included two years later in the exhibition Premio Fra Galgario per il retratto e l’autoritratto, Palazzo della Raglione, Bergamo, October 14–November 11, 1945.