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