Portrait of Marquess Massimiliano Stampa

1557 (High Renaissance)

71.1 cm 134.9 cm 2.5 cm

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The boy can be identified as the nine-year-old Massimiliano Stampa, third marquess of the small northern Italian city of Soncino, on the basis of a contemporary annotation on the back of the canvas. This is Sophonisba Anguissola's first major commission. The family commissione...

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Chantel Collection, Lyon [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Trotti, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown; Galerie Trotti & Cie ?, founded 1901)]; James Stillman, New York; C. C. Stillman, New York, prior to 1921, by descent; C. C. Stillman Sale, American Art Association Galleries, New York, February 3, 1927, no. 29 [as Portrait of a Young Prince of the Este Family, by G. B. Moroni]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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