Title: Portrait of Ranuccio Farnese
Date work started: 1542
Date work completed: 1542
Place created: Venice
Patron: Farnese Family
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Sequence: Itinerary 1 of 14
Owner Name: Titian
In possession from: 1542 to 1542
Location: Venice
Notes:
Painting was executed in Venice where Ranuccio had been sent to be prior of San Giovanni Forlani. Commissioned as a gift for Ranuccio's mother, Girolama Orsini, by one of Ranuccio's tutors, the bishop of Brescia.
Citations: Wethey, Harold E. , The Paintings of Titian, v. 2: The Portraits, (London: Phaidon, 1971) pg. 98. Humfrey, Peter, Titian: The Complete Paintings, (New York: H.N. Abrams, 2007) p. 140. Jaffe, David, Titian, (London: Yale University Press, 2003) p. 136. Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) p. 56.
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Sequence: Itinerary 2 of 14
Owner Name: Farnese Family
In possession from: 1542 to 1680
Location: Palazzo Farnese
Notes:
There is no documentation of when exactly this painting travels from Venice to Rome. It first appears in a Farnese inventory in 1620, but it is assumed to be there earlier than 1620.
Citations: Ilchman, Frederick, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009) p. 219.
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Sequence: Itinerary 3 of 14
Owner Name: Farnese Family
In possession from: 1680 to 1734
Location: Palazzo del Giardino
Notes:
Wethey says the Farnese collection was transferred to Naples sometime in the mid-eighteenth century
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Sequence: Itinerary 4 of 14
Owner Name: Charles III of Spain
In possession from: 1734 to 1789
Location: Palazzo di Capodimonte
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Sequence: Itinerary 5 of 14
Owner Name: Ferdinand IV of Naples
In possession from: 1789 to 1798
Location: Palazzo di Capodimonte
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Sequence: Itinerary 6 of 14
Owner Name: Ferdinand IV of Naples
In possession from: 1798 to 1815
Location: Palazzo dei Normanni
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Sequence: Itinerary 7 of 14
Owner Name: House of Savoy
In possession from: 1861 to Unknown
Location: Palazzo di Capodimonte
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Sequence: Itinerary 8 of 14
Owner Name: Sir George Donaldson
In possession from: Unknown to 1880
Location: New Bond Street
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Sequence: Itinerary 9 of 14
Owner Name: Sir John Charles Robinson
In possession from: 1880 to 1885
Location: 107 Harley Street
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Citations: Jaffe, David, Titian, (London: Yale University Press, 2003) p. 136.
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Sequence: Itinerary 10 of 14
Owner Name: Sir Francis Cook
In possession from: 1885 to 1945
Location: Doughty House, Richmond Hill
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Citations: Wethey, Harold E. , The Paintings of Titian, v. 2: The Portraits, (London: Phaidon, 1971) p. 99.
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Sequence: Itinerary 11 of 14
Owner Name: Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi
In possession from: 1945 to 1947
Location: Villa Vittoria
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Citations: Wethey, Harold E. , The Paintings of Titian, v. 2: The Portraits, (London: Phaidon, 1971) p. 99.
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Sequence: Itinerary 12 of 14
Owner Name: Gualtiero Volterra
In possession from: 1947 to 1948
Location: London
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Sequence: Itinerary 13 of 14
Owner Name: Samuel H. Kress Foundation
In possession from: 1948 to 1952
Location: Samuel H. Kress Foundation
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Citations: Wethey, Harold E. , The Paintings of Titian, v. 2: The Portraits, (London: Phaidon, 1971) p. 99.
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Sequence: Itinerary 14 of 14
Owner Name: National Gallery
In possession from: 1952 to Present
Location: National Gallery
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Citations: Wethey, Harold E. , The Paintings of Titian, v. 2: The Portraits, (London: Phaidon, 1971) p. 99.
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- http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg23/gg23-41593.html by Jodi Cranston
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