Artist |
Titian
(1490–1576) |
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Alternative names |
Tiziano Vecellio; Tiziano Vecelli; Tiziano Vecellio di Gregorio; Titianus, Tiziano da Cador |
Description |
Italian painter, drawer, architectural draftsperson, printmaker and visual artist |
Date of birth/death |
between 1485 and 1490 date QS:P,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1485-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1490-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
27 August 1576 |
Location of birth/death |
Pieve di Cadore |
Venice |
Work location |
Venice, Ferrara, Mantua, Padua (1511), Milan (1540), Rome (from 1545 until 1546 date QS:P,+1545-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1545-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1546-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ), Florence (1546), Augsburg (1548, from 1550 until 1551 date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1551-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ), Constantinople (from 1555 until 1557 date QS:P,+1555-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1555-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1557-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ) |
Authority file |
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artist QS:P170,Q47551 Details on Google Art Project |
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Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 oil on canvasmedium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
Object history |
Farnese family, Parma, by 1620;[1] brought from Naples to London by Sir George Donaldson [1845 1925], London; sold May 1880 to Sir John Charles Robinson [1824 1913], London; sold to Sir Francis Cook, 1st Bt. [1817 1901], Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, by 1885;[2] by inheritance to his son, Sir Frederick Lucas Cook, 2nd Bt. [1844 1920], Doughty House; by inheritance to his son, Sir Herbert Frederick Cook, 3rd Bt. [1868 1939], Doughty House; by inheritance to his son, Sir Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, 4th Bt. [1907 1978], Doughty House, and Cothay Manor, Somerset; sold June or July 1947 to (Gualtiero Volterra, London) for (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence);[3] sold July 1948 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1952 to NGA.
[1] Recorded in Parma in 1620 and 1680; probably moved to Naples in 1734, where it presumably remained until shortly before 1880.
[2] According to Robinson's account book (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; copy of relevant page in NGA curatorial files). The painting is included in an article by Robinson on the Cook collection that appeared in the May 1885 Art Journal, pp. 133 137.
[3] See copy of correspondence in NGA curatorial files, from the Cook Collection Archive in care of John Somerville, England. Volterra was Contini Bonacossi's agent in London.
[4] The Kress Foundation made an offer to Contini Bonacossi on 7 June 1948 for a group of twenty eight paintings, including Titian's "Portrait of a Boy;" the offer was accepted on 11 July 1948 (see copies of correspondence in NGA curatorial files).
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