Titian: "Double portrait of Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino (1514-1574), and his son, Francesco Maria II (1549-1631), full-length"
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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 |
Title |
"Double portrait of Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino (1514-1574), and his son, Francesco Maria II (1549-1631), full-length" |
Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
Description |
English: Portrait of Guidobaldo II della Rovere (1514-1574) and his son Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino (1549-1631).
"This portrait is one of only a handful of whole-lengths by Titian. Venetian convention discouraged statements of the kind and, with the possible exception of the portrait in the Uffizi (Wethey, op. cit., no. 52), wrongly identified as of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, all the artist’s whole-lengths are of sitters of elevated rank: the three portraits of the Emperor Charles V (Madrid, Prado; and Munich, Alte Pinakothek); that of his son, King Philip II of Spain (fig. 2; Madrid, Prado), of which there are two partly autograph variants (Naples, Museo di Capodimonte; and Florence, Palazzo Pitti); the portrait of Giovanni Francesco Acquaviva d’Aragona, exiled Duke of Atri (Kassel, Staatliche Kunstsammlung); that of Cardinal Cristoforo Madruzzo, who exercised secular power as Bishop of Trent (Sao Paolo, Museu de Arte de São Paulo); The Allocution of Alfonso d’Avalos, Marchese del Vasto (Madrid, Prado); The Vendramin Family in Adoration of a Relic of the True Cross (London, National Gallery), a statement of religious devotion as much as a strict portrait group; the Farnese group (referred to above); and the present picture, which is the only work of the kind not held by a public institution." [1] |
Date |
16th century date QS:P571,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 |
Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
Dimensions |
height: 198 cm (77.9 in); width: 113 cm (44.4 in) dimensions QS:P2048,198U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,113U174728 |
Collection |
Unidentified location
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Location |
16th-century portrait paintings of women, with Not identified, Not provided, Unspecified, Unmentioned or Unknown Unknown location
label QS:Len,"Not identified, Not provided, Unspecified, Unmentioned or UnknownUnknown location" and year. |
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Object history |
Provenance:
- The Malaspina family (Elizabeth della Rovere, sister of Guidobaldo II, who married Alberico I Cybo Malaspina, Marchese di Massa and Carrara).
- Abate Luigi Celotti, Venice, until 1837.
- Count Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (1812-1875), San Donato, Florence, 1837; his sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 3-4 March 1870, lot 187 (17,500 francs).
- Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 3rd Marquess of Westminster, later 1st Duke of Westminster (1825-1899), 1870, and by descent at Grosvenor House, and elsewhere to his grandson,
- Hugh Richard Arthur, 2nd Duke of Westminster (1879-1953); (†) Sotheby’s, London, 24 June 1959, lot 17 (?24,000).
- with Matthiesen Gallery, London, by 1962, where acquired by the present owner.
- Auction: 7 July 2016 [2]
- Auction: Christie's, LotFinder: entry 6136767, Sale 15654, New York, 19 April 2018, Old Masters Part I, lot 31, The property of a european lady
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Exhibition history |
- London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters, 1871, no. 139.
- Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Konstens Venedig: utställning anordnad med anledning av Konung Gustaf VI Adolfs attioarsdag, 20 October 1962-10 February 1963, no. 95.
- Naples, Museo di Capodimonte, Tiziano e il ritratto di corte da Raffaelo a Carracci, 25 March-4 June 2006, no. 31.
- Paris, Musee du Luxembourg, Titien: Le pouvoir en face, 13 September 2006-21 January 2007, no. 29.
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Inscriptions |
inscribed S-R-E- / SURP (upper left, on the banderole) |
Source/Photographer |
2. https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Double-portrait-of-Guidobaldo-II-della-R/987AC328E87A0052
1. https://archive.is/857Ef |