Tiberio Titi (Florence 1573-1627)
Tiberio Titi (Florence 1573-1627)

Portrait of a nobleman, full-length, in a black embroidered coat and breeches, with a red silk and lace trimmed cape

Details
Tiberio Titi (Florence 1573-1627)
Portrait of a nobleman, full-length, in a black embroidered coat and breeches, with a red silk and lace trimmed cape
indistinctly signed (lower right)
oil on canvas
80 x 44 in. (203.2 x 111.8 cm.)
Provenance
Central Picture Gallery, New York from whom purchased in March 1955 by Walter Chrysler Jnr.; (+) Sotheby's, New York, 1 June 1989, lot 28 ($18,000).
Exhibited
On loan to the Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, Dec. 1974-1989.

Lot Essay

Formerly attributed to Justus Sustermans, when the picture was sold at Sotheby's, Dr. John T. Spike suggested the attribution to Titi. This picture can be compared with other portraits by the artist in the Uffizi Gallery (see K. Langendijk, The Portraits of the Medici, Florence, 1981, nos 44, 10; 92, 23). The style of dress suggests a date in the early 1620s. Tiberio Titi, the son of Santo di Tito, was a portraitist to the Medici family during the first quarter of the seventeenth century.

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