Portrait of a Collector by Parmigianino - c. 1524 - 89,5 x 63,8 cm National Gallery Portrait of a Collector by Parmigianino - c. 1524 - 89,5 x 63,8 cm National Gallery

Portrait of a Collector

oil on canvas • 89,5 x 63,8 cm
  • Parmigianino - January 11, 1503 - August 24, 1540 Parmigianino c. 1524

The work, together with four others attributed to Parmigianino, was listed in 1587, as a Portrait of a Priest. A more detailed description of the works in the Palazzo del Giardino at Parma from 1670 also identifies the subject as religious man. The first art historian to clarify that the subject was not a priest was Freedberg, in 1950, identifying him as Francesco Baiardi. Today he is considered an unknown collector, who holds the Offiziolo Durazzo, a miniated breviary today housed in the Biblioteca Civica Berio at Genoa. The man also appears in a portrait in London, attributed by some to Dosso Dossi.

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