LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

40.04 in. (101.70 cm.) (height) by 30.12 in. (76.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy of Arts,. Exhibition of the Works of the Old Masters , 1871, no. 84 (as Titian);. New York, Schaeffer Galleries, Inc., Paintings by Old Masters: XV to XVIII Centuries , 5 - 20 November 1936, no. 1

Literature:

J.A. Crowe and G.B. Cavalcaselle,. A . History of Painting in North Italy.., from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century , London 1871, vol. II, p. 290 (as Pordenone);. J.-P. Richter, A descriptive catalogue of the collection of pictures belonging to the Earl of Northbrook, Francis George Baring.. , London 1889, pp. 163-65, no. 218 (as Titian or Paris Bordone); . W. Suida, 'Fremde Meister um Tizian, 1. Jan Stephan von Calcar, 2. Lambert Sustris von Amsterdam, 3. Greco und Rubens', Belvedere , 12, 1934, 1/2, p. 13, reproduced in black and white as fig. 17 (as perhaps by Stephan von Calcar, although not seen in person); . G. Mariani Canova, 'Nuove note a Paris Bordon', Arte Veneta , XXII, 1968, pp. 174-76, reproduced on p. 176, fig. 259 and as a detail fig. 260 (as Paris Bordon); . J. Habert, 'Calcar au Louvre', in Hommage à Michel Laclotte, Études sur la peinture du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance , Paris 1994, p. 367, reproduced on p. 363, fig. 389 (as Paris Bordone, c . 1532-36 (?), Swiss private collection); . N. Penny, National Gallery Catalogues, The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings, Volume II, Venice 1540-1600 , London 2008, pp. 48-49 and p. 51, note 9 (as Bordone); . A. Donati, Paris Bordone , Soncino 2014, p. 390, no. 188, reproduced in black and white on p. 389 (as Bordone

Provenance:

Manuel Francisco Domingo de Godoy y Álvarez de Faria, de los Ríos y Sanchez-Zarzosa, Príncipe de la Paz, Prime Minister of Spain (1767-1851); his collection dispersed in 1808 in Madrid upon the French occupation of Spain; sold (as 'Tiziano') to. M. de Crochart, paymaster-general of the French army in Spain, by whom brought to England in early 1815 and later sold (as Titian) to . A private collector, from whom acquired by . John Smith (1781-1855), by whom sold in 1853 (as Titian) to . Thomas Baring (1799-1873); . Thence by descent to his nephew, Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook (1826-1904); . Dr Schäfer, Berlin; . Dr Kodella, Graz; . His sale, Lucerne, Fischer, 29 August - 1 September 1934, lot 1713, reproduced as plate 39 (as Jan Stephan van Calcar); . With Schäffer Galleries, Berlin and New York, by 1936; . Private collection, Switzerland, where recorded in 1968, as on the art market; . Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 28 January 2000, lot 15 (as Paris Bordone), for $180,000; . Where acquired by the present owner