Doorway,

mid-15th to early 16th century

Venice, Italy (various buildings); Arturo Biondetti [1]; ca. 1892-1893 purchase by Allan Marquand [2]; 1950 bequest of Mrs. Allan Marquand to Princeton University Art Museum.

[1] Dealer and restorer of marble, with studio on Campo S. Vio

[2] Allan Marquand, "A Venetian Doorway by Pietro Lombardo," Art in America IV, no. 3 (April 1916): 142-146: "During the winter of 1892-1893, my attention was called to a photograph of a doorway for sale in Venice. It attracted me so much that I soon began negotiations for it, purchased it, and had it set up in my house at Princeton, where it has been a source of interest and joy to me ever since. I purchased it indirectly from an artist dealer, Biondetti, whose studio, and collection of antiques, was, I believe, in the Cmapo San Vio. When I came later to inquire into the provenance of the doorway, Biondetti was dead and his successor had no record of it." Marquand installed the doorway in Guernsey Hall, Princeton. A photograph is published in Art in America. See also: Arthur Page Brown (American, 1859–1896), Alteration of Vestibule for Allan Marquand. Graphite and watercolor, 75.5 x 56.6 cm. Gift of the Estate of Allan Marquand, Class of 1874 (x1963-42)

formerly attributed to Pietro Lombardo, Italian, Venetian, 1435 –1515

• "Recent acquisitions", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 9, no. 2 (1950): p. 15., p. 15
• Betsy Rosasco, "The teaching of art and the museum tradition: Joseph Henry to Allan Marquand," in "An art museum for Princeton: the early years", special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 55, no. 1/2 (1996): p. 7-52., p. 37, fig. 22