Portrait of a Venetian Woman
Framed: 24 × 20 15/16 × 2 7/8 inches (60.96 × 53.16 × 7.29 cm)
Giorgione and His Circle, The John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, February 23-March 21, 1942, no. 29.
The Golden Century of Venetian Painting, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 30, 1979-January 27, 1980, no. 6.
Those Beguiling Women, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 27-October 30, 1983, no. 11.
Quincy Adams Shaw (1825-1908), Boston, ca. 1856-1908 [1];
By descent to his daughter, Marian Graeme Haughton (d. 1959), Boston, 1908-December 21, 1939;
Purchased from Haughton by Giovanni Castano Galleries, Boston, December 21, 1939 [2];
Purchased from Castano Galleries by Schoneman Galleries, New York, by 1940-1947;
Acquired by exchange from Schoneman Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1947.
NOTES:
[1] According to Dr. J. Schoneman, Schoneman Galleries, in a letter to Paul Gardner, Director, November 19, 1947, NAMA curatorial files.
[2] Archives of American Art, Washington, DC, Giovanni Castano Galleries records, reel 4854.
Letter from Lionello Venturi to Dr. J. Schoneman, September 13, 1940, NAMA curatorial files, as by Vittore Carpaccio.
Giorgione and His Circle, exh. cat. (Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University, 1942), 38, (repro.), as by Vittore Carpaccio.
Gallery News (The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) vol. 13, no. 10 (October 1947): unpaginated, (repro.), as by Vittore Carpaccio.
The Art Digest 22, no. 1 (October 1, 1947): 11, (repro.), as by Vittore Carpaccio.
“The Recent Acquisitions…Portrait of a Lady by Vittore Carpaccio,” The Art Quarterly 10 (1947): 285, 286, (repro.), as by Vittore Carpaccio.
“Kansas City’s New Lady,” Life (February 16, 1948): 101, (repro.).
Letter from Harold Woodbury Parsons to B. Berenson, February 28, 1948, NAMA curatorial files, as possibly by Bartolomeo Veneto.
“Sacred and Profane Old Master for Kansas City,” Art News 47, no. 5 (September 1948): 28, (repro.), as by Vittore Carpaccio.
Luisa Vertova, Carpaccio (Florence: Electa, 1949), unpaginated, (repro.), as by Vittore Carpaccio.
Ermanno Arslan, “Due disegni e un dipinto di Carpaccio,” Emporium 116 (1952): 111, as by Vittore Carpaccio.
Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, vol. 1 (London: Phaidon, 1957), 57, as by Vittore Carpaccio.
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 262, as by Vittore Carpaccio.
Guido Perocco, Tutta la pittura del Carpaccio (Milan: Rizzoli 1960), 84, (repro.), as by circle of Vittore Carpaccio.
Fritz Heinemann, Giovanni Bellini e I belliniani, vol. 1 (Venice: Hildesheim 1962), 241, as by Jacopo de’Barbari.
Jan Lauts, Carpaccio: Paintings and Drawings (London: Phaidon, 1962), 260, as likely by Giovanni Mansueti.
Michelangelo Muraro, Carpaccio (Florence: Edizione d'arte el fiorino, 1966), 91, as attributed to Vittore Carpaccio.
Manlio Cancogni and Guido Perocco, L’opera completa del Carpaccio (Milan: Rizzoli 1967), no. 119, p. 115, (repro.), as attributed to Vittore Carpaccio.
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of pre-nineteenth-century Italian paintings in North American public collections (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1972), 47, 529, 589, as attributed to Vittore Carpaccio.
Ross E. Taggart and George l. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 86, (repro.), as by Vittore Carpaccio.
Dizionario biografico degli italiani, vol. 20 (Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1977): 573.
Terision Pignatti and Kenneth Donahue, The Golden Century of Venetian Painting, exh. cat. (Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1979), 42-43, 157, (repro.), as by Vittore Carpaccio..
Denys Sutton, “Venetian Painting of the Golden Age,” Apollo 110, no. 213 (November 1979): 375, 380, (repro.), as by Vittore Carpaccio.
“Venetian Painting of the Renaissance,” Antiques 116, no. 5 (1979): 1004, (repro.), as by Vittore Carpaccio..
Ross Taggart et al., Those Beguiling Women, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 6, 15, (repro.), as by Vittore Carpaccio.
Peter Humfrey, Carpaccio: Catalogo completo dei dipinti (Florence: Cantini, 1991), no. 23, pp. 9, 96, (repro.), as by Vittore Carpaccio.
Elliot W. Rowlands, The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Italian Paintings, 1300-1800 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 134-137, as by Venetian school.
