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| Keywords: Carpaccio - Young knight in a landscape - unrestored.jpg artwork Creator Vittore Carpaccio en one of the earliest full-length portraits in European painting; before restoration as the two notes are missing 1510 Oil canvas cm 218 5 152 5 institution Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza 7 http //www museothyssen org/en/thyssen/ficha_obra/556 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza http //www metmuseum org/pubs/journals/1/pdf/1512800 pdf bannered pdf Metropolitan Museum Journal 18 1984 pdf; 4 2 MB object history -1919 Vernon-Wentworth collection Yorkshire ProvenanceEvent 1919-11 purchase Otto H Kahn Vernon-Wentworth collection Yorkshire ProvenanceEvent 1935 purchase Baron Heinrich Thyssen- Bornemisza Otto H Kahn exhibition history 1963 Venice Carpaccio; 1981 Old Master Paintings from the Collection of Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza Metropolitan Museum New York credit line en before restoration because inscriptions and notes are missing 1 The painting was attributed to Dürer until 1919 due to a now removed fake monogram and as the two inscriptions were concealed by over-paint until the restoration 1958 2 The identity of the knight is controversial Following Helen Comstock the weasel could suggest that he belongs to the Order of the Ermine founded in 1465 by King Ferdinand I of Naples In 1938 Agathe Rona following her suggested that the knight was Ferdinand II of Aragon and that the Order of the Ermine was associated with the house of Aragon Neapolitan branch Since the catalogue of an exhibition on Carpaccio held in Venice in 1963 Weiss identified the knight as Francesco Maria della Rovere 3rd Duke of Urbino and this is accepted by the majority including Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza There are still more theories identifying the young knight as a Habsburg prince as Antonio da Montefeltro as a German soldier in the service of Venice or as Rolando de RagusaVenturi accession number INV 82 1935 3 </onlyinclude> PD-Art-100 Young Knight in a Landscape by Carpaccio | ||||
