Category:Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus (Sebastiano del Piombo - Metropolitan Museum of Art)

**Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus (born about 1446, died 1506)**
	painting by Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano Luciani)
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Instance of	painting;
Main subject	Christopher Columbus (disputed);
Depicts	Christopher Columbus, man and portrait
Made from material	oil paint; canvas (painting support);
Genre	portrait;
Location	Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York City, New York
Creator	Sebastiano del Piombo;
Owned by	Philip Louis, Count Palatine of Neuburg; Wolfgang William, Count Palatine of Neuburg; Philip William, Elector Palatine; Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine; Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord; Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord; Georges Petit; Lawrie & Co; Thomas Agnew & Sons; J. P. Morgan; Metropolitan Museum of Art;
Location of creation	Rome;
Collection	Metropolitan Museum of Art (1900–);
Inventory number	00.18.2 (Metropolitan Museum of Art);
Inception	1519 (statement with Gregorian date earlier than 1584);
Width	88.3 cm;
Height	106.7 cm;
Authority file
	Q19911671; The Met object ID: 437645
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Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus (Sebastiano del Piombo - Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Sebastiano del Piombo: Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus (born about 1446, died 1506)

Artist



Description	Italian painter mannerism
Date of birth/death	circa 1485	15 June 1547
Location of birth/death	Venice	Rome
Work location	Rome, Venice
Authority file	: Q285423 VIAF: 34727713 ISNI: 0000000120237396 ULAN: 500032554 LCCN: n80093545 NLA: 35254095 WGA: s/sebastia Open Library: OL1691828A GND: 118795937 SELIBR: 198595 SUDOC: 081359632 BNF: 150424337 NKC: ola2011633637 SBN: CFIV018772 BNE: XX840827 CiNii: DA07832475 NLP: a0000001883788 RKD: 71702 J9U: 987007452431805171 Koninklijke: 069155534 WorldCat

Title

Portrait of a Man, said to be Christopher Columbus

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Depicted people

Christopher Columbus

Date

1519

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 106.7 cm (42 in)

; width: 88.3 cm (34.7 in)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

	Native name	Metropolitan Museum of Art
	Location	Manhattan, New York City, United States of America
	Coordinates	40° 46′ 46″ N, 73° 57′ 48″ W
	Established	1870
	Website	www.metmuseum.org
	Authority file	: Q160236 VIAF: 126238294 ISNI: 0000000419368761 ULAN: 500125157 LCCN: n79129629 NLA: 36247933 WorldCat

Current location

Gallery 607

Accession number

00.18.2 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Place of creation

Rome

Object history

Provenance

?Ottheinrich Wittelsbach, Elector Palatine, Heidelberg (until d. 1559)
the Wittelsbach family, Electors Palatine, Heidelberg (1559–1680)
Karl Ludwig II Wittelsbach, Elector Palatine, Residenzschloss, Heidelberg (possibly from 1680–d. 1685; inv., 1685)
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, prince de Bénévent, Paris (by 1814–d. 1838)
his heir, Napoléon-Louis, 3rd duc Talleyrand-Périgord, duc de Valençay, prince de Sagan, Château de Valençay, Indre (1838–d. 1898; his estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 29–June 1, 1899, no. 14, for Fr 30,000 to Lawrie)
[T. Lawrie and Co., London, from 1899; sold to Agnew]
[Agnew, London, until 1900; sold for £40,000 to Morgan]
J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York (1900)

Exhibition history

1814: Paris. Palais Royal. 1814, no. 107 (lent by Talleyrand) [see Refs. Wehle 1940 and Zeri and Gardner 1973].
1893: Chicago World's Fair. "World's Columbian Exhibition: Fine Arts,", not in catalogue.
1906: New York City. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Temporary Exhibition," no. 18.
Washington. Corcoran Gallery of Art. "American Processional: 1492–1900," July 8–December 17, 1950, no. 1 (as "Christopher Columbus").
New York. R. H. Macy. September 10–26, 1951, no catalogue.
Detroit Institute of Arts. "Thirty-Eight Great Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 2–October 28, 1951, no catalogue.
Art Gallery of Toronto. "Thirty-Eight Great Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," November 14–December 12, 1951, no catalogue.
City Art Museum of St. Louis. "Thirty-Eight Great Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," January 6–February 4, 1952, no catalogue.
Seattle Art Museum. "Thirty-Eight Great Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 1–June 30, 1952, no catalogue.
Milwaukee Art Institute. "5 Centuries of Spanish Art," September 5–October 25, 1952, no catalogue.
Syracuse, N.Y. Syracuse University. "Spanish Art: Fifteenth Century to Modern," November 10–December 1, 1952, no. 4.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Junior Museum. "The Age of Discovery," October 1, 1957–June 30, 1958, no catalogue?
Montreal. Expo 67. "Terre des Hommes/Man and His World," April 28–October 27, 1967, no. 19.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Venetian Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum," May 1–September 2, 1974, no catalogue.
New-York Historical Society Museum. "Imagining the New World: Columbian Iconography," November 13, 1991–January 26, 1992, no. 19.
Rome. Palazzo di Venezia. "Sebastiano del Piombo, 1485–1547," February 8–May 18, 2008, no. 37 (as "Portrait of Christopher Columbus").
Berlin. Gemäldegalerie. "Sebastiano del Piombo, 1485–1547," June 28–September 28, 2008, no. 37 (as "Portrait of Christopher Columbus").

Credit line

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900

Inscriptions

Signed, dated, and inscribed: (center right) SEBASTIANVS / VENETVS FACIT; (across top) HÆC.EST.EFFIGIES.LIGVRIS.MIRANDA.COLVMBI.ANTIPODVM.PRIMVS / RATE.QVI.PENETRAVIT.IN.ORBEM. 1519 (This is the admirable portrait of the Ligurian Columbus, the first to enter by ship into the world of the Antipodes, 1519)

Notes

Théodor De Bry included an engraving of 1595 in his "Grands voyages" which was made after this painting or a version of it.
An engraving by Mercuri, dated 1843 (in "Supplément aux Galeries historiques de Versailles," vol. 5, ser. 10, sect. 2, unpaginated), depicts the head and shoulders only.
There is a partial copy in the Szépmüvészeti Muzeum, Budapest.

A version formerly in the Ridgefield Library, Ridgefield, Connecticut, was sold at Christie's East, New York, March 26, 1982, no. 127, as Manner of Sebastiano del Piombo.

References

Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection (The Met object ID 437645)

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Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus.jpg 4,266 × 5,161; 8.25 MB
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Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus (born about 1446, died 1506) MET DT369.jpg 3,064 × 3,714; 3.32 MB
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