Giovanni Battista Moroni
Portrait of Abbess Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova
155791.4 x 68.6 cm
Oil on canvas
Dated and inscribed (on cartouche): LVCRETIA NOBILISS[IMI]. ALEXIS ALARDI / BERGOMENSIS FILIA HONORATISS[IMI]. / FRANCISCI CATANEI VERTVATIS / VXOR DIVAE ANNAE ALBINENSE / TEMPLVM IPSA STATVENDV CVRAVIT. / M.D.LVII. (Lucretia, daughter of the most noble Alessio Agliardi of Bergamo, wife of the most honorable Francesco Cataneo Vertova, herself founded the church of Saint Anne at Albino. 1557)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Theodore M. Davis Collection
Literature
Peter Humfrey, Timothy Clifford, Aidan Weston-Lewis, Michael Bury, The Age of Titian, Edinburgh, 2004, fig. 39
Provenance
convent of Sant'Anna, Albino, until 1799, sold to Noli
prete Giovanni Battista Noli, Bergamo, from 1799
by descent to Signora Elena Noli Baglioni, Bergamo, 1860s
Ercole Baglioni, Bergamo, by 1870–at least 1875, sold to Zanchi
Dionigi Zanchi, Bergamo, ?until 1893, sold to Davis
Theodore M. Davis, Newport, R.I., 1893–died 1915
his estate, on loan to the MMA, 1915–30
Other works by Giovanni Battista Moroni
Portrait of Giovanni Bressani
1562
1562
The Tailor
1565-70
1565-70
Portrait of a Man
1561
1561
Gian Lodovico Madruzzo
1551/52
1551/52
Gian Federico Madruzzo
c. 1560
c. 1560