Portrait of Giovanni Battista Mora the Elder

Description For more information on this portrait, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 375, pp. 493-494.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
11/20/1967	Treatment	coated; stabilized
9/22/1970	Treatment	mounted; cleaned

Provenance Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 349]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Transcription] On marble pedestal on the right: IO: BAPTISTA MORA | SENIOR NOBILIS VI | CENTINVS PRVDEN | TIA DIVITYSQ[VE] CLARVS; [Translation] Giovanni Battista Mora the Elder, nobleman of Vicenza, renowned for prudence and for wealth

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902