Alvise Vivarini

Portrait of a gentleman, bust-length, in a black cap with an elaborate zazzera. Alvise Vivarini
oil on marouflaged panel
28.60 x 21.20 cm

Provenance
Gagliardi, Florence;
Sale, Rome, Jandolo and Ravazzi, 27 April to 2 May 1908, lot 525, reproduced pl. XXXIII;
Private collection, Avignon;
With Julius Böhler, Munich, by 1929;
Edward Hutton (1875-1959), London, by 1947;
With Wildenstein, New York, by 1982.
Literature
The Art News, vol. XXIX, no. 38 (July 1931), reproduced p. 18;
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, London 1957, vol. I, p. 196 as Alvise Vivarini and p. 201 as Bartolomeo Vivarini;
F. Heinemann, Giovanni Bellini e i belliniani, Venice 1959, vol. I, p. 274, cat. no. V390, reproduced vol. II, p. 675, fig. 778;
J. Steer, Alvise Vivarini, His Art and Influence, Cambridge, England, 1982, pp. 59, 144, cat. no. 20 and p. 147, reproduced, p. 147, pls. 34 and 34a.