Bernardo Gritti, Proprefect of Bergamo, Carlo Ceresa, 1646

Identification

Title(s)

Bernardo Gritti, Proprefect of Bergamo

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-4103

Inscriptions / marks

inscription: ‘En faciem vere augustam vere previ. tu dignam optimi optatissimi Bergomi praetoris et pro praefecti BERNARDI GRITTI ... prudentia labore pervigili difficilis controversia Civitatis cum pauperrimo D. Ursulae Collegio faciliter celeriter laudabiliter fuit explicita composita expedita. Tibi aeternas grates agimus pro tua tuae late consiquae familiae incolumitate increme D.O.M.IV millimas precis fundemus aeternum omnis omnas hocce grati animi monum S. Ursulae Colleg. P. MDCXLVI.’

Description

Portret van Bernardo Gritti, proprefect (pro-prefetto) van Bergamo. De magistraat staat naast een tafel en wijst naar documenten die daarop liggen. Rechtsboven het wapen van de familie Gritti, links een inscriptie.

Creation

Artist

painter: Carlo Ceresa

Place

Italy

Dating

1646

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

Measurements

height c. 114.2 cm × width c. 100.5 cm
depth 8.5 cm

Subject

Who

Bernardo Gritti

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Purchased with the support of the J.W. Edwin Vom Rath Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1964

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; from the Heim Gallery, Paris, fl. 11,074.95, to the museum, with support from the J.W. Edwin vom Rathfonds, 1964

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Documentation

Italian Paintings from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in Dutch Public Collections, Bernard Jan Hendrik Aikema, Ewoud Mijnlieff, Mandy Sikkens, Gert Jan van der Sman, Bert Treffers
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue, p. 166
Aanwinsten : 1 november 1963 - 1 november 1964
Keuze uit de aanwinsten, p. 129, afb. 1

Persistent URL

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