Bernardo Gritti, Proprefect of Bergamo

Bernardo Gritti, Proprefect of Bergamo

SK-A-4103

Portret van Bernardo Gritti, proprefect (pro-prefetto) van Bergamo. De magistraat staat naast een tafel en wijst naar documenten die daarop liggen. Rechtsboven het wapen van de familie Gritti, links een inscriptie.

inscription: ‘En faciem vere augustam vere previ. tu dignam optimi optatissimi Bergomi praetoris et pro praefecti BERNARDI GRITTI ... prudentia labore pervigili difficilis controversia Civitatis cum pauperrimo D. Ursulae Collegio faciliter celeriter laudabiliter fuit explicita composita expedita. Tibi aeternas grates agimus pro tua tuae late consiquae familiae incolumitate increme D.O.M.IV millimas precis fundemus aeternum omnis omnas hocce grati animi monum S. Ursulae Colleg. P. MDCXLVI.’

painter: Carlo Ceresa, Italy

1646

oil on canvas

• height 114.2 cm x width 100.5 cm
• depth 8.5 cm

Purchased with the support of the J.W. Edwin Vom Rath Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds

purchase 1964

Public domain

…; from the Heim Gallery, Paris, fl. 11,074.95, to the museum, with support from the J.W. Edwin vom Rathfonds, 1964

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