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.