Title: Three Ages of Man
Date work started: 1512
Date work completed: 1514
Place created: Venice
Patron: unknown
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Sequence: Itinerary 1 of 19
Owner Name: Titian
In possession from: 1512 to 1514
Location: Casa Grande
Notes:
The dating on this painting is uncertain. Paul Joannides (Titian to 1518, p. 193) dates it to 1516, when Titian returned from Ferrara. Joannides also identifies the picture as "Daphnis and Chloe." The National Gallery of Scotland currently identifies the picture as the "Three Ages of Man." Most other scholars affirm the date to 1513.
Citations: Joannides, Paul, Titian to 1518: The Assumption of Genius, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001) p. 193. Humfrey, Peter, 'The Patron and Early Provenance of Titian's 'Three Ages of Man'' Burlington Magazine vol. cxlv : (2003), p. 787.
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Sequence: Itinerary 2 of 19
Owner Name: Titian
In possession from: 1514 to 1550
Location: Casa Grande
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The painting could possibly have been the picture mentioned by Vasari as the one in the Faenza house of Giovanni dal Castel Bolognese, who had moved there in 1539. Vasari visited in 1547 or 1548. The description associated with this picture is vague, though: "in una tela a olio, un pastor ignudo e una forese che gli porge certi faluti."
Citations: Joannides, Paul, Titian to 1518: The Assumption of Genius, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001) p. 193. Humfrey, Peter, 'The Patron and Early Provenance of Titian's 'Three Ages of Man'' Burlington Magazine vol. cxlv : (2003), p. 787.
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Sequence: Itinerary 3 of 19
Owner Name: Cardinal Otto Truchsess von Waldburg
In possession from: 1550 to Unknown
Location: Augsburg
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Citations: Wethey, Harold E. , The Paintings of Titian, v. 3 : The Mythological and Historical Paintings, (London: Phaidon, 1975) p. 182.
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Sequence: Itinerary 4 of 19
Owner Name: Cardinal Otto Truchsess von Waldburg (and heirs?)
In possession from: Unknown to 1655
Location: Rome
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J. van Sandrart states that the picture was owned by Matthaus Hopfer in Augsburg. After Hopfer's death in 1623, the painting might have passed on to the Ebert family before being put on sale. Wethey assumes that because the agent who sold the picture to Queen Christina was named "Herr van Walberg" that this person is related to the "Waldburg" family.
Citations: Wethey, Harold E. , The Paintings of Titian, v. 3 : The Mythological and Historical Paintings, (London: Phaidon, 1975) p. 182. von Sandrart, J., Teutsche Academie..., (Munich: , 1925) p. 272.
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Sequence: Itinerary 5 of 19
Owner Name: Queen Christina of Sweden
In possession from: 1655 to 1656
Location: Palazzo Farnese
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Sequence: Itinerary 6 of 19
Owner Name: Queen Christina of Sweden
In possession from: 1656 to 1658
Location: Rome
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Sequence: Itinerary 7 of 19
Owner Name: Queen Christina of Sweden
In possession from: 1658 to 1689
Location: Palazzo Riario
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The picture is known to be in Queen Christina's possession around 1662, but there is evidence to suggest that she acquired the picture when she passed through Augsburg in 1655.
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Sequence: Itinerary 8 of 19
Owner Name: Cardinal Decio Azzolino
In possession from: 1689 to 1689
Location: Palazzo Riario
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Sequence: Itinerary 9 of 19
Owner Name: Marchese Pompeo Azzolino
In possession from: 1689 to 1692
Location: Palazzo Riario
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Sequence: Itinerary 10 of 19
Owner Name: Don Livio Oldescalchi
In possession from: 1692 to 1713
Location: Palazzo Oldescalchi
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Sequence: Itinerary 11 of 19
Owner Name: Oldescalchi heirs
In possession from: 1713 to 1721
Location: Palazzo Oldescalchi
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Sequence: Itinerary 12 of 19
Owner Name: Duc d'Orléans
In possession from: 1721 to 1792
Location: Palais Royal
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Sequence: Itinerary 13 of 19
Owner Name: Lord Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater
In possession from: 1798 to 1803
Location: Cleveland House
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Sequence: Itinerary 14 of 19
Owner Name: George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland
In possession from: 1803 to 1833
Location: Cleveland House
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Sequence: Itinerary 15 of 19
Owner Name: Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere
In possession from: 1833 to 1857
Location: Bridgewater House
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Sequence: Itinerary 16 of 19
Owner Name: Dukes of Sutherland
In possession from: 1857 to 1940
Location: Bridgewater House
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Sequence: Itinerary 17 of 19
Owner Name: Dukes of Sutherland
In possession from: 1940 to 1946
Location: Mertoun House
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Penny (2008), pp. 461-70
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Sequence: Itinerary 18 of 19
Owner Name: 6th Duke of Sutherland
In possession from: 1946 to 2000
Location: National Galleries of Scotland
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Sequence: Itinerary 19 of 19
Owner Name: 7th Duke of Sutherland
In possession from: 2000 to Present
Location: National Galleries of Scotland
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Citations: Wethey, Harold E. , The Paintings of Titian, v. 3 : The Mythological and Historical Paintings, (London: Phaidon, 1975) p. 182.
Useful links:
- http://www.nationalgalleries.org/object/NGL 068.46 by Jodi Cranston