Portrait of Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino Artist: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian, Venice, ca. 1488–1576)

1545

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art

Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

60.3 × 48.3 × 3.5 cm (23 3/4 × 19 × 1 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Catherine B. Hickox

Accession Number

1956.7.1

Culture

Italian, Venetian

Period

16th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Mr. Nicholson Collection; P. Jackson Higgs Gallery, New York (as Titian, "Francesco Maria della Rovere, Duke of Urbino"); Mrs. Catherine B. Hickox Collection, New York (as of 1931).
Bibliography

  • Ian Verstegen, "Guidobaldo II della Rovere in European Perspective," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2016): 42, fig. 1.
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 601.
  • Harold Edwin Wethey, The Paintings of Titian: Complete Edition, II. The Portraits (London: Phaidon, 1971).
  • Charles Seymour, Early Italian Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970).
  • "List of Accessions, 1956," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 23, nos. 1–2 (February 1957): 29.
  • Leo S. Olschki, ed., Miscellanea di storia dell'arte, in onore di Igino Benvenuto Supino: A cura della Rivista d'arte (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1933), 487–95, (*Fig. 1's caption and the essay contents reference the Yale picture, however the image reproduced is of the copy after the Yale painting.), fig. 1*.
  • Georg Gronau, Titian (London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., 1904), fig. pl. cccxxvll.

Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

portraits

Subject

man

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