Titian
Doge Andrea Gritti
Probably between 1535 and 1540133.6 x 103.2 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 246
Provenance
Purchased 1626 in Italy for Charles I, King of England (1600-1649), Whitehall Palace, London
Charles I [Commonwealth] sale, Somerset House, London, 23 October 1651
purchased by the Syndicate of the Twelfth Dividend, organized by John Jackson, lawyer
Wenzel Anton, Prince von Kaunitz-Rietburg (died 1794)
by inheritance to Wenzel Alois, Prinz Kaunitz
Kaunitz sale, Vienna, 13 March 1820, nr. 178
purchased by Johann Rudolf, Count Czernin von Chudenitz (1757-1845), Vienna
by inheritance through the Czernin von Chudenitz family, Vienna, to Count Eugen Czernin von Chudenitz (1892-1955), Vienna, as of 1933, until at least 1948
on commission January 1954 from Willy Haene, lawyer for Czernin, with M. Knoedler & Co., New York
sold 1954 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1961 to NGA
Other works by Titian
St. John the Evangelist on Patmos
c. 1544
c. 1544
Doge Francesco Venier
1554-56
1554-56
The Virgin with Child, Saint Mary Magdalene and Other Saints
c. 1520
c. 1520
Portrait of a Lady
c. 1555
c. 1555
Portrait of a Man