Portrait of a Lady by Follower of Titian
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Portrait of a Lady

Follower of Titian · c. 1550

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. 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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