Property from a New York Private Collection
Jacopo Robusti, called Jacopo Tintoretto
Portrait of a Nobleman
Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a New York Private Collection
Jacopo Robusti, called Jacopo Tintoretto
Venice 1518 - 1594
Portrait of a Nobleman
inscribed on the verso: D.G.H. surmounted by a ducal crown
oil on canvas
canvas: 42 ¼ by 30 ¾ in.; 107.3 by 78.1 cm
framed: 55 ¾ by 44 ⅝ in.; 141.6 by 113.3 cm
Don Gaspar Méndez de Haro y Guzmán (1629-1687), 7th Marqués del Carpio, Rome and Naples, by 1682;
Probably thence by descent to his daughter, Catalina Méndez de Haro y Guzmán (1672-1733), later Duchess of Alba;
Prince Brancaccio, Rome, by 1903;
Charles Sedelmeyer (1837-1925), Paris;
Offered at his sale, Paris, Galerie Sedelmeyer, 5 June 1907, lot 189 (as Titian), where unsold;
With Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, until at least 1911;
Private collection, by at least 1974;
Private collection, Switzerland;
By whom sold ("Property from a European Private Collection"), Sotheby's, London, 6 July 2011, lot 58;
Where acquired.
A. Venturi, Oeuvres d'art de la collection du Prince Brancaccio de Rome, Rome 1903, pp. 65-66, reproduced pl. 5 (as Titian);
A. de Saint-Groux, "La Collection Ch. Sedelmeyer," in Les Arts 61 (January 1907), pp. 17, 24, reproduced (as Titian);
Illustrated Catalogue of the Eleventh Series of 100 Paintings by Old Masters, Paris 1911, p. 86, cat. no. 73, reproduced (as Titian);
P. Rossi, Jacopo Tintoretto, I Ritratti, Venice 1974, vol. I, p. 132, reproduced fig. 57 (as Tintoretto, circa 1551);
P. Rossi, Tintoretto, I Ritratti, Milan 1990, vol. I, p. 140, cat. no. 156;
M.B. Burke and P. Cherry, Spanish Inventories I: Collections of Paintings in Madrid, 1601-1755, M.B. Burke and P. Cherry (eds.), Los Angeles 1997, pt. 1, p. 826, no. 274 (transcribing Don Gaspar's 1687 posthumous inventory);
L. de Frutos, El Templo de la Fama, Alegoría del Marqués del Carpi, Madrid 2009, pp. 185, 350, 358, 511, 605.
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