Leonardo_da_Vinci_-_Ginevra_de'_Benci_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
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Summary
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Leonardo da Vinci : Ginevra de' Benci | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q762
Details on Google Art Project |
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Title |
Ginevra de' Benci
title QS:P1476,en:"Ginevra de' Benci"
label QS:Len,"Ginevra de' Benci"
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Object type |
painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
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Genre | portrait | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Depicted people | Ginevra de' Benci | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | (c. 1474 - 1478) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium |
oil
on
panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
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Dimensions |
height: 427 mm (16.81 in); width: 370 mm (14.56 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,427U174789
dimensions QS:P2049,370U174789
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q214867
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Accession number |
1967.6.1.a
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Object history |
Reigning Princes of Liechtenstein in Vienna and later Vaduz, principality of Liechtenstein, by 1733, the date of a red wax seal, bearing the Liechtenstein arms, on the reverse;[1] purchased 10 February 1967 by NGA.[2] [1] The name "Ginevra" was too common in the Renaissance to assume with Jean Adhémar ("Une galerie de portraits italiens à Amboise en 1500," Gazette des Beaux Arts 86, no. 1281 (October 1975): 100), followed by Fern Rusk Shapley ( Catalogue of the Italian Paintings , 2 vols., Washington, D.C., 1979: 1:251 255) that a portrait of a lady so named in an inventory made at Amboise in 1500 refers to Leonardo's painting, which the early sources, to the contrary, place in Florence. It is not known whether the painting belonged to the Benci family in the early sixteenth century, as Antonio Billi ( Il Libro di Antonio Billi esistente in due copie nella Biblioteca nazionale di Firenze , ed. Carl Frey, Berlin, 1892: 51), who presumably saw it, does not give its location. The picture may well have entered the Liechtenstein Collection by 1712 or earlier, as the 1733 seal designated works that were part of the "Fideikommissgalerie" of Prince Johann Adam (1657 1712), held in trust but not personally collected by the then reigning Prince Josef Wenzel (1696 1772) (see Reinhold Baumstark, "Collecting Paintings," in Liechtenstein, The Princely Collections , exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985: 183 185). The founder of the picture gallery at Feldsberg was Prince Karl Eusebius (1611 1684), a distinguished connoisseur who liked small cabinet type paintings. He was succeeded by his son, the already mentioned Prince Johann Adam (1657 1712), also an avid collector who, however, preferred the Italian Baroque. Either could have obtained the painting in Florence, where both traveled (Olga Raggio, "The Collection of Sculpture," in Liechtenstein, The Princely Collections , exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985: 63 65). Leonardo's authorship, in any case, came to be forgotten, as the panel was attributed to Lucas Cranach in the Liechtenstein Catalogue of 1780.
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Credit line | Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes | More info at museum site | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source/Photographer | 9QEdQ-BD4WEqPQ at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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