Title: Flora
Date work started: 1516
Date work completed: 1518
Place created: Venice
Patron: Alfonso I d'Este?
Back-
Sequence: Itinerary 1 of 11
Owner Name: Titian
In possession from: 1518 to 1518
Location: Ca' del Duca
Notes:
Brown says that Titian painted it in 1520 (p.224)
Citations: Humfrey, Peter, Titian: The Complete Paintings, (New York: H.N. Abrams, 2007) p. 58.
-
Sequence: Itinerary 2 of 11
Owner Name: Alfonso I d'Este?
In possession from: 1518 to Unknown
Location: Castello Estense?
Notes:
Citations:
-
Sequence: Itinerary 3 of 11
Owner Name: Alfonso Lopez
In possession from: 1637 to 1640
Location: Amsterdam
Notes:
According the Wethey, Lopez sold the painting in 1639 to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm
Citations: Villa, Giovanni Carlo Federico, Titian, (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2013) pages 68. Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) page 290.
-
Sequence: Itinerary 4 of 11
Owner Name: unknown
In possession from: 1640 to 1641
Location: Paris
Notes:
Probably sold in Paris at the auction of the Lopez collection.
Citations: Villa, Giovanni Carlo Federico, Titian, (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2013) page 68. Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) page 290.
-
Sequence: Itinerary 5 of 11
Owner Name: unknown
In possession from: 1641 to 1728
Location: unknown
Notes:
Citations: Villa, Giovanni Carlo Federico, Titian, (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2013) page 68.
-
Sequence: Itinerary 6 of 11
Owner Name: Hapsburg
In possession from: 1728 to 1781
Location: Stallburg Castle
Notes:
Many scholars believe that the painting entered the Hapsburg collection before 1728 under Archduke Leopold Wilhelm. There is no proof of this in the 1659 inventory.
Citations: Villa, Giovanni Carlo Federico, Titian, (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2013) page 68. Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) page 290.
-
Sequence: Itinerary 7 of 11
Owner Name: Hapsburg
In possession from: 1781 to 1793
Location: Belvedere Palace
Notes:
Citations:
-
Sequence: Itinerary 8 of 11
Owner Name: Galleria degli Uffizi
In possession from: 1793 to 1940
Location: Galleria degli Uffizi
Notes:
Citations: Villa, Giovanni Carlo Federico, Titian, (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2013) page 68. Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) page 290.
-
Sequence: Itinerary 9 of 11
Owner Name: Galleria degli Uffizi
In possession from: 1940 to 1940
Location: Villa Medici
Notes:
Citations: Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) page 290.
-
Sequence: Itinerary 10 of 11
Owner Name: Galleria degli Uffizi
In possession from: 1940 to 1945
Location: Hermitage of Camaldoli
Notes:
Citations: Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) page 290.
-
Sequence: Itinerary 11 of 11
Owner Name: Galleria degli Uffizi
In possession from: 1945 to Present
Location: Galleria degli Uffizi
Notes:
Citations: Villa, Giovanni Carlo Federico, Titian, (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2013) page 68. Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) page 290. Wethey, Harold E. , The Paintings of Titian, v. 3 : The Mythological and Historical Paintings, (London: Phaidon, 1975) p. 154. Brown, David Alan, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006) p. 224.
Useful links: