TIZIANO VECELLIO, CALLED TITIAN (PIEVE DI CADORE C. 1485/90-1576 VENICE)

Lot 31
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Lot 31 | TIZIANO VECELLIO, CALLED TITIAN (PIEVE DI CADORE C. 1485/90-1576 VENICE)
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TIZIANO VECELLIO, CALLED TITIAN (PIEVE DI CADORE C. 1485/90-1576 VENICE)
Portrait of a nobleman, seated before a window
signed 'TITIANI / OPVS' and 'TICIANVS F' (centre left, the latter now indistinct)
oil on canvas
47 3/8 x 38 ¼ in. (120.3 x 97.2 cm.)




Provenance

Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Sotheby's, London, 24 March 1976, lot 64.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Sotheby's, London, 8 April 1981, lot 60.
with Colnaghi, New York, by 1982.
with Harari & Johns Ltd, London, by 1989.
Private collection.
with Hall & Knight Ltd., New York, from whom acquired in 1998 by,
James O. Fairfax AC (1933–2017), New South Wales, from whom acquired privately through Christie's in 2018 by the present owner.



Literature

R. Beresford and P. Raissis, The James Fairfax Collection of Old Master Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Sydney, 2003, pp. 194-197, no. 57, illustrated.
P. Humfrey, Titian: The Complete Paintings, London, 2007, p. 269, no. 202, illustrated, as Titian, with possible workshop collaboration.



Exhibited

Sydney, National Gallery of New South Wales, long-term loan (lent by James Fairfax).
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