Vittore Carpaccio, Portrait of a Woman Holding a Book, 1500–1505. Oil paint and tempera paint on panel; 16 × 11 7/8 in. ( 40.6 × 30.2 cm). Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1961.168

image height: 16 in, 40.6400 cm; image width: 11 7/8 in, 30.1625 cm; frame height: 28 in, 71.1200 cm; frame width: 18 in, 45.7200 cm

European and American Art Before 1900

Private collection, Milan. Michel Van Gelder [1864-1929], Château Zeecrabbe, Uccle, Belgium, ca. 1907. (Matthiesen Gallery), Berlin, from at least 1928 until 1931; (Galerie Julius Böhler), Munich, 1931. Possibly (Leo Blumenreich [1884-1932]), Berlin. Captain Norman Robert Colville [1893-1974], London, by 1939; sale, (Christie's), London, February 24, 1939, no. 99, withdrawn. Possibly (Matthiesen Gallery), London, 1939. Possibly Mrs. Sterner, US. (Paul Drey [1885-1953]), New York, by 1942; purchase, Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955], 1948; gifted to the Denver Art Museum, 1961.

• "Ausstellung altvenezianischer Malerei (Exhibition of old Venetian paintings)"—Julius Böhler, Munich, 1931
• “Venetian Paintings”—Matthiesen Gallery, London, 2/23/1939 - 4/6/1939
• “Giorgione and his Circle”—Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 2/23/1942 - 3/21/1942
• "Vittore Carpaccio"—Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 06/15/1963-10/6/1963
• "The Portrait in Renaissance Italy, from Masaccio to Bellini"—Bode Museum, Berlin, 08/25/2011 - 11/20/2011 and Metropolitan Museum of Art, 12/19/2011 - 03/18/2012
• "Glory of Venice: Masterworks of the Renaissance"—Denver Art Museum, 10/02/2016 - 02/12/2017
• "Glory of Venice: Renaissance Paintings 1470–1520"—North Carolina Museum of Art, 03/04/2017 - 06/18/2017