Portrait of Ludovico Portinari by the Master of the Legend of St. Ursula in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, August 2009

Portrait of Ludovico Portinari

Right panel from a votive diptych; the companion panel is in the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1943.97)

Master of the Legend of Saint Ursula, Netherlandish (active Bruges), active c. 1470 - c. 1500


Geography: Made in Netherlands (historical name, 15th-16th century), Europe

Date: Before 1469?

Medium: Oil on panel

Dimensions: 17 1/8 x 12 5/8 inches (43.5 x 32.1 cm) Framed: 20 3/16 × 15 1/2 × 1 5/16 inches (51.3 × 39.4 × 3.3 cm)

Curatorial Department: European Painting

Accession Number: Cat. 327

Credit Line: John G. Johnson Collection, 1917

Label: A coat of arms on the back of this painting identifies the sitter as Ludovico Portinari. The Portinari family, which administered the Bruges office of the Medici banks, were important patrons of Flemish art.

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