Comparable Sales
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
No public-rights comparable sales meet the current evidence criteria. RELICT does not fill the table with research-only or licensed-only facts.
Nga
Museum
Portrait of a Humanist
c. 1520
Market Intelligence
Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.
Last known price
$55,000
Dealer sale · May 1, 1955
+988.0% vs previous observed sale
Matched price history · normalized USD · Foundry provisional
$1K1951
$5K1953
$55K1955
Last known price$55,0003 matched observed sales
Observed median$5,055
Observed sales3
Artist index4,014.6
1955-05-01Dealer sale$55,000.00
1953-10-13Dealer purchase$5,055.00
1951-12-31Dealer purchase$1,370.00
Artist index contextLatest public build 4,014.6 · base 100 · n=1.Artist-level context is not an artwork valuation.
Evidence ranked
Provenance
PublicGhizzi family, Naples
Ghizzi family, Naples
sold by 1821 to a Marquess of Lansdowne
sold by 1821 to a Marquess of Lansdowne
Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, Bowood Hall, Wiltshire, England, by 1821
Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, Bowood Hall, Wiltshire, England, by 1821
by inheritance to Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne [1816-1866], Bowood Hall
by inheritance to Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne [1816-1866], Bowood Hall
by inheritance to Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne [1845-1927], Bowood Hall, until at least 1914.[1] (Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London), on joint account with (M. Knoedler & Company, New York)
by inheritance to Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne [1845-1927], Bowo...
and (Pinakos [Rudolf Heinemann], New York)
and (Pinakos [Rudolf Heinemann], New York)
sold 1955 to to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
sold 1955 to to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
Source provenance text
Ghizzi family, Naples; sold by 1821 to a Marquess of Lansdowne; Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, Bowood Hall, Wiltshire, England, by 1821; by inheritance to Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne [1816-1866], Bowood Hall; by inheritance to Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne [1845-1927], Bowood Hall, until at least 1914.[1] (Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London), on joint account with (M. Knoedler & Company, New York); and (Pinakos [Rudolf Heinemann], New York); sold 1955 to to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1961 to NGA. [1] According to Mrs. Anna Jameson, _Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London_, 1844: 306-307. [2] M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Stock book no. 10, p. 115, no. A5476, and Sales book no. 17, p. 155 (copies in NGA curatorial files). Receipt dated 7 February 1955 from M. Knoedler & Co., in NGA curatorial files. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1671.
Ngaconfidence 100%
Exhibitions
PublicNo rights-cleared exhibition history is published.
Sourced Overview Evidence
Portrait of a Humanist is a work by Sebastiano del Piombo. dated c. 1520. made in oil on panel transferred to hardboard. with recorded dimensions overall: 134.7 x 101 x 3.5 cm (53 1/16 x 39 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.) framed: 171.8 x 139.4 x 10.2 cm (67 5/8 x 54 7/8 x 4 in.). The work is recorded by National Gallery of Art under accession 1961.9.38.
Ngaconfidence 100%
Evidence state
3 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 10 structured provenance events · 0 structured exhibitions.
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