Portrait of a Gentleman, three-quarter length, in a black fur-lined coat, holding a paw

Details

David Teniers II (1610-1690), after Lorenzo Lotto
Portrait of a Gentleman, three-quarter length, in a black fur-lined coat, holding a paw
oil on canvas laid down on panel
6 5/8 x 4 5/8in. (16.9 x 11.8cm.)

Provenance

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, by 1740, and by descent to
George Charles, 8th Duke of Marlborough; Christie's, 26 July 1886, lot 109, as 'Ulysses Aldovrandi, The Naturalist, Copied from Titian' (16gns. to Wickham).
John Edwards; Christie's, 4 May 1936, lot 137 (5gns. to Asscher & Welcker).
(Probably) Henry George Charles, 6th Earl of Harewood (1882-1947).
His wife, HRH the Princess Mary, the Princess Royal (1897-1965); (+) Christie's, 26 Nov. 1976, lot 11 (£2,400).

Literature

T. Borenius, Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings at Harewood House and elsewhere in the collection of the Earl of Harewood KG., G.V.O., D.S.O., Oxford, 1936, p. 68, no. VIII.

Exhibited

London, Kenwood House, Cabinet Pictures by David Teniers, 1972, no. 13.

Engraved

L. Vorsterman II, Theatrum Pictorum Davidis Teniers, etc., Brussels, 1660, no. 75, as after Titian.

Lot Essay

The present picture is one of an extensive series of small copies by Teniers after Italian paintings in the collection of his patron, the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands. These copies served as the basis for 243 engravings, subsequently published at the artist's expense in 1660 as the Theatrum Pictorium.

In the Theatrum Pictorium, the original from which Teniers made his copy is given to Titian. However, Morelli proposed an attribution to Lorenzo Lotto in 1893, and later commentators have confirmed this attribution. The original picture is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (no. 576).

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