Currently not on view
Doge Marino Grimani
Leandro Bassano, Italian, 1557–1622
y1962-89
Information
Title
Doge Marino Grimani
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
131 x 109 cm (51 9/16 x 42 15/16 in.)
frame: 164.5 x 140.5 x 6.5 cm (64 3/4 x 55 5/16 x 2 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, with funds given by Duane E. Wilder, Class of 1951, on the occasion of the retirement of Prof. Ernest T. DeWald as Director, 1960, for a purchase of Professor DeWald's choice
Object Number
y1962-89
Signatures
Below the vignette, signature in three lines: LEANDER A PONTE BASS [ANO] EQVES F.;
Culture
Type
Subject
Anonymous art dealer, England (until 1956; sale, Christie’s London, April 6, 1956, lot 85, to Agnew); Agnew, London (1956-59); John and Johanna Bass (1959-62; sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, October 24, 1962, lot 44, sold to Princeton University Art Museum).
- Old pictures and drawings: the property of the late Miss Dorothy Bateman Clare ... Mrs. A.J. Hamilton ... and from other sources ... April 6, 1956, (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1956). , lot 85
- Primitives and Old Master paintings: romanesque, gothic and other sculptures, a unique set of XVII century mass vestments from the collection of John and Johanna Bass ... part one: public auction Oct. 24, (New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1962)., no. 44
- "Recent acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 22, no. 1 (1963): p. 15-19., p. 16
- Felton Gibbons, "Doge Marino Grimani by Leandro Bassano, Knight", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 22, no. 2 (1963): 22-34., p. 27 (illus.); p. 29 (illus.)
- B. B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of pre-nineteenth-century Italian paintings in North American collections, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972)., p. 99
