Ridolfo Ghirlandaio (Florence, 1483–1561)
Portrait of a Lady with a Rabbit
circa 1508
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
object 334
Oil on panel
57.5 × 44.6 cm (22 5/8 × 17 9/16in.)
Status: on view
https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/334
Provenance:
Vitelli of Citta di Castello Collection, Umbria; Giovagnoli Collection (by descent); James Jackson Jarves Collection, Florence (purchased in 1859). University Purchase from James Jackson Jarves 1871.72
Bibliography:
Susan B. Matheson, Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 48, 52, fig.42.
Clay M. Dean, A Selection of Early Italian Paintings from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2003), 14, 44–45, no.15.
Mrs. Francis Steegmuller, The Two Lives of James Jackson Jarves(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1951), 303, fig.21.
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 3;600.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
Dutch School
Portrait of a female artist
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge, UK
object 93 ref nr 1334
Oil on canvas, 91,4 x 75,9 cm
Status: in storage
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-7142
Provenance:
Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount
Bibliography:
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum page(s): 56, 60
Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. I, Dutch and Flemish page(s): 36
The Dutch Connection: The Founding of the Fitzwilliam Museum page(s): 60
Exhibitions:
The Dutch Connection
Note: This electronic record was created from public documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Museum’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
Battista Dossi (Battista de' Luteri) (Italian (active Ferrara), c. 1474–1548)
Venus and Cupid, circa 1540
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, USA
object E1972-2-1
Oil on canvas, 157.5 × 127.6 cm
Copyright ©
Status: on view
https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/103004
Several details in this picture suggest that it is an allegorical portrait of a young bride as Venus. She restrains a naughty Cupid from shooting a lead-tipped arrow (for extinguishing love rather than kindling it). The laurel tree with its clinging vine suggests hope for long-lasting love. Finally, Venus's revealed breast symbolizes voluptuousness, while the covered one represents modesty, two virtues appropriate in a bride.
The painting is possibly to be associated with a Dossi painting of Venus and Cupid discussed by Giustiniani Masdoni in the 1618 inventory of the Cesare d'Este collection in Modena (see Scott Schaefer, "Battista Dossi's 'Venus and Cupid'," Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 74, no. 320, March 1978, p. 16).
Provenance:
Possibly collection of the d'Este family, Dukes of Ferrara [1]. George Salting, London, by 1907 [2]; Sir George Donaldson, London, by 1914, until no later than 1928 [3]. Lord Rochdale (possibly George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale [1866-1945]), London. Wildenstein & Co., New York [4]; sold to Gladys Lloyd Cassell Robinson (1895-1971), Los Angeles, by 1959-1971 [5]; her sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, October 26, 1960, no. 9, illus. (as Dosso Dossi), unsold; Gladys Lloyd Robinson estate, 1971-1972; purchased by the City of Philadelphia with the George W. Elkins Fund, 1972.1.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Museum’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.