Portrait of a gentleman, three-quarter-length, in a fur-trimmed coat, holding a document and leaning against a pedestal

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Jacopo Robusti, il Tintoretto (Venice 1560-1635)
Portrait of a gentleman, three-quarter-length, in a fur-trimmed coat, holding a document and leaning against a pedestal
oil on canvas
39 7/8 x 32 3/8. (101.3 x 82.4 cm.)

Provenance

The Dukes of Devonshire, Chatsworth: sold by Order of The Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement, Christie's, London, 28 November 1975, lot 15 (sold 6,500 gns).
Anon. Sale [The Property of a Lady of Title], Christie's, London, 5 July 1996, lot 47 (£47,700 to the present owner).

Literature

R. Pallucchini, Giunte alla giovinezza del Tintoretto, Arte Veneta, 1951, pp. 112-3.
P.L. de Vecchi, L'opera completa del Tintoretto, Milan, 1970, p. 89, no. 40.
P. Rossi, Jacopo Tintoretto. I ritratti, Venice, 1974, pp. 101-2, fig. 26.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Pallucchini, loc cit., related this picture to a similar portrait in the Louvre, and another at Hampton Court Palace, dated 1545 (lot. cit). Paola Rossi feels that its mixture of mannerist and northern influences establishes it to be of slightly later date, comparable to the Portrait of a Gentleman in the Coelho collection, Rio de Janeiro. She dates both pictures to 1547-8 (Rossi, op. cit, pp. 101-2 and 121, figs. 26 and 28).

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