Portrait of Giovanni Battista Mora the Elder

Description Conservation Provenance Inscription Credit

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

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Creator

Bernardo Strozzi (Italian, 1584-1644) (Painter)

Period

1630-1644 (Renaissance)

Medium

oil on canvas
(Painting & Drawing)

Accession Number

37.1675

Measurements

Painted surface H: 75 9/16 x W: 48 5/16 in. (192 x 122.7 cm)

Geographies

Italy, Genoa (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View