
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Portrait of a Lady
Follower of Titian · c. 1550
Provenance
Ownership history
- Private Collection, Italy [based on customs stamps from Florence on the reverse of the painting]. Sold by Böhler and Steinmeyer, New York, to Max Epstein (d. 1954), Chicago, between 1928 and 1930 [see Art News 1930; the painting is not included in the 1929 catalogue of the Epstein collection]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Art News 28, 18 (1930), p. 3, ill.
- Wilhelm Suida, Le Titien (Paris, 1935), p. 112.
- Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, vol. 1 (London, 1957), p. 184.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 451.
- Rodolfo Pallucchini, Tiziano (Florence, 1969), vol. 1, pp. 223, 348, vol. 2, pl. 675.
- Harold E. Wethey, The Paintings of Titian: Complete Edition, The Portraits, vol. 2 (London, 1971), p. 169, no. X-60.
- Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 202, 531, 571.
- Fritz Heinemann, “La bottega di Tiziano,” in Tiziano e Venezia: Convegno Internazionale di Studi Venezia, 1976 (Vicenza, 1980), p. 438.
- Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 246–248, ill.
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