School of TIZIANO VECELLIO, called TITIAN (1477-1576)

Details

School of TIZIANO VECELLIO, called TITIAN (1477-1576)

The Martyrdom of Saint Peter Martyr

painted arched top
oil on canvas
26 3/8 x 16 1/8in. (67 x 41cm.)

Provenance

J. Smith Barry, before 1857
with Piero Tozzi, New York, from whom purchased by Miss Tully in 1967

Literature

T. von Frimmel, Studien und Skizzen Gemäldekunde, III, 1917, no. 4, pp. 333ff. as a bozzetto by Titian

Exhibited

Manchester, Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, 1857, no. 297

Lot Essay

Based on Titian's highly influential painting of 1526-30 formerly in the Church of S.S. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, and destroyed by fire on August 16, 1867 (H. Wethey, The Paintings of Titian, I, The Religious Paintings, 1969, pp. 153-5, no. 133).

Sold with a photocopy of a certificate by Professor H.P. von Grundherr, dated March 1, 1955, as a bozzetto by Titian