Titian
Ranuccio Farnese
154289.7 x 73.6 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed center right: TITIANVS / .f.
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. 248
Literature
Duncan Bull (red.), Rembrandt Caravaggio, Zwolle - Amsterdam, 2006, fig. 40
Sara van Dijk, Matthias Ubl, Remember me, Rotterdam, 2021, fig. 37
Provenance
Farnese family, Parma, by 1644
Farnese family, Palazzo del Giardino, Parma, by 1680
Farnese family, Palazzo della Pilotta, Parma, by 1708
by inheritance 1734 to the Bourbon collection, Naples
Bourbon collection, Palazzo di Capodimonte, Naples, by 1765
Bourbon collection, Palazzo Francavilla, Naples, by 1802
Bourbon collection, Palazzo degli Studi, Naples, by 1816
brought from Naples to London by Sir George Donaldson (1845-1925), London
sold May 1880 to Sir John Charles Robinson (1824-1913), London
sold to Sir Francis Cook, 1st bt. (1817-1901), Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, by 1885
by inheritance to his son, Sir Frederick Lucas Cook, 2nd bt. (1844-1920), Doughty House
by inheritance to his son, Sir Herbert Frederick Cook, 3rd bt. (1868-1939), Doughty House
by inheritance to his son, Sir Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, 4th bt. (1907-1978), Doughty House, and Cothay Manor, Somerset
sold June or July 1947 to Gualtiero Volterra, London for Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence
sold July 1948 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1952 to NGA
Other works by Titian
Self Portrait
c. 1562
c. 1562
Two Boys of the Pesaro Family
c. 1540-45
c. 1540-45
Crowning with Thorns
c. 1570-76
c. 1570-76
Danaë
c. 1551-53
c. 1551-53
Venus and Adonis
1554
1554