LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

34.06 in. (86.50 cm.) (height) by 46.06 in. (117.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland,. The Age of Titian, Venetian Renaissance Art from Scottish Collections, 5 August - 5 December 2004, no. 33.

Literature:

Fettercairn House inventory, 1917 (as 'Sansovino by Jacopo Bassano'; Front Hall);. . Fettercairn House inventory, 1930 (as 'Sansovino. Titian [crossed out]. Jacopo Bassano'; Hall);. P. Humfrey in The Age of Titian, Venetian Renaissance Art from Scottish Collections , P. Humfrey, T. Clifford, A. Weston-Lewis and M. Bury (eds), exhibition catalogue, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 5 August - 5 December 2004, pp. 120-21, no. 33, reproduced in colour; . C. Campbell, 'Venice in Edinburgh', Apollo , CLX, no. 511, September 2004, p. 92, reproduced in colour; . N. Penny, 'At the Royal Scottish Academy', in the London Review of Books , vol. 26, no. 20, 21 October 2004, p. 34; . J. Fletcher, 'The Age of Titian. Edinburgh', under Exhibition Reviews, The Burlington Magazine , vol. CXLVI, no. 1220, November 2004, p. 779, reproduced in black and white, fig. 88.

Provenance:

Antonio Fidanza, Milan;. From whom purchased by James Irvine on behalf of Sir William Forbes, 7th Baronet of Pitsligo (1773-1828), of Fettercairn, Kincardineshire, on 2 July 1827, in Milan, for 50 Louis (as a Portrait of Sansovino by Titian); . By descent to his son Sir John Stuart Hepburn-Forbes, 8th Baronet of Pitsligo (1804-1866); . By inheritance to his son-in-law Charles Trefusis, 20th Baron Clinton (1834-1904); . Thence by descent to the present owner. .