Lot Essay
The original, by Catena, is in the National Gallery, London, Inv. no. NG5751.
PROPERTY OF THE SHELDON SWOPE ART MUSEUM, INC., SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND*
School of Vincenzo Catena (active 1506-1531)
Portrait of Doge Andrea Gritti, half length, holding a glove
Details
School of Vincenzo Catena (active 1506-1531)
Portrait of Doge Andrea Gritti, half length, holding a glove
oil on canvas
42½ x 31¼in. (108 x 79.4cm.)
Portrait of Doge Andrea Gritti, half length, holding a glove
oil on canvas
42½ x 31¼in. (108 x 79.4cm.)
Provenance
Mrs. Cotterell, Florence, 1867.
Sir George Lindsay Holford; (+) sale, Christie's, London, July 15, 1927, lot 117 as Titian (480gns. to Raeburn Galleries).
Private collection, New York.
Joseph B. Francus, by whom given to the Sheldon Swope Art Gallery in 1973.
Sir George Lindsay Holford; (+) sale, Christie's, London, July 15, 1927, lot 117 as Titian (480gns. to Raeburn Galleries).
Private collection, New York.
Joseph B. Francus, by whom given to the Sheldon Swope Art Gallery in 1973.
Literature
J.A. Crowe and G.B. Cavalcaselle, Life and Times of Titian, 1877, I, p. 301, under uncertain attributions.
A.L. Mayer, A propos d'un nouveau livre sur le Titien, Gazette des beaux-arts, XVIII, no. 6, 1937, p. 308, illustrated as probably Titian's original.
G. Robertson, Vincenzo Catena, 1954, p. 69 as perhaps workshop of Tintoretto.
Possibly H.E. Wethey, The Paintings of Titian, II, The Portraits, 1971, p. 170 , no. X-62 under copies as being in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, although there is no record of such a painting (J.W. Goodison and G.H. Robertson, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Catalogue of Paintings: Italian Schools, 1967, II).
A.L. Mayer, A propos d'un nouveau livre sur le Titien, Gazette des beaux-arts, XVIII, no. 6, 1937, p. 308, illustrated as probably Titian's original.
G. Robertson, Vincenzo Catena, 1954, p. 69 as perhaps workshop of Tintoretto.
Possibly H.E. Wethey, The Paintings of Titian, II, The Portraits, 1971, p. 170 , no. X-62 under copies as being in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, although there is no record of such a painting (J.W. Goodison and G.H. Robertson, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Catalogue of Paintings: Italian Schools, 1967, II).
Exhibited
London, New Gallery, Venetian Art, 1894-5, no. 248 as Titian.
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1921-2, no. 47 as Titian.
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1921-2, no. 47 as Titian.