Lot Essay
The original is in the Prado, Madrid
Details
Follower of Tiziano Veccellio, called Titian
The Madonna Annunciate
with signature 'TITIANVS/F.'
on panel
31¼ x 21 7/8in. (79.2 x 55.5cm.)
The Madonna Annunciate
with signature 'TITIANVS/F.'
on panel
31¼ x 21 7/8in. (79.2 x 55.5cm.)
Provenance
Sr. de Alava, Seville.
Dr. Eduard Carvalho, Villandry.
Dr. Eduard Carvalho, Villandry.
Literature
L. Amaudry, The Collection of Dr. Carvallo at Paris, Article 1 - A newly-discovered Titian, The Burlington Magazine, VI, no. XX, Nov. 1904, pp. 95-6, pl.1
H.E. Wethey, The Paintings of Titian, I, The Religious Paintings, London, 1969, p.116, under no. 77, copy ('...Amaudry claims that the Carvalho picture is the original and the Prado example a copy. Although such a theory is untenable, the really handsome Carvalho panel may well be one of the various replicas recorded in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries at the Escorial, possibly the item on slate (sic) above the principal stairway in 1764 and 1800...'), fig. 215
H.E. Wethey, The Paintings of Titian, I, The Religious Paintings, London, 1969, p.116, under no. 77, copy ('...Amaudry claims that the Carvalho picture is the original and the Prado example a copy. Although such a theory is untenable, the really handsome Carvalho panel may well be one of the various replicas recorded in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries at the Escorial, possibly the item on slate (sic) above the principal stairway in 1764 and 1800...'), fig. 215