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Portrait of Pietro Bembo by Titian in the National Gallery of Art

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Titian: Portrait of Cardinal Pietro Bembo  wikidata:Q4252531 reasonator:Q4252531
Artist
Titian  (1490–1576)  wikidata:Q47551 s:it:Autore:Tiziano q:en:Titian
 
Titian
Alternative names
Tiziano Vecellio; Tiziano Vecelli; Tiziano Vecellio di Gregorio; Titianus, Tiziano da Cador
Description Italian painter, drawer, architectural draftsperson, printmaker and visual artist
Date of birth/death between 1485 and 1490
date QS:P,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1485-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1490-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
 27 August 1576 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Pieve di Cadore Edit this at Wikidata Venice Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Venice, Ferrara, Mantua, Padua (1511), Milan (1540), Rome (from 1545 until 1546
date QS:P,+1545-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1545-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1546-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
), Florence (1546), Augsburg (1548, from 1550 until 1551
date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1551-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
), Constantinople (from 1555 until 1557
date QS:P,+1555-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1555-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1557-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
)
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artist QS:P170,Q47551

Details on Google Art Project
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Title
Cardinal Pietro Bembo
title QS:P1476,en:"Cardinal Pietro Bembo"
label QS:Len,"Cardinal Pietro Bembo"
Part of Samuel H. Kress Collection of the National Gallery of Art Edit this at Wikidata
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people Pietro Bembo Edit this at Wikidata
Date between 1539 and 1540
date QS:P571,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1539-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1540-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 945 mm (37.20 in); width: 765 mm (30.11 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,945U174789
dimensions QS:P2049,765U174789
institution QS:P195,Q214867
Accession number
1952.5.28
Object history Probably commissioned by the sitter, Cardinal Pietro Bembo [1470-1547], Padua and Rome; by inheritance to his son, Torquato Bembo [1525-1595].[1] probably (Ferrante Carlo [1578-1641], Rome), and acquired from him before 1631 by Don Fabrizio Valguarnera [d. 1632], Rome.[2] Leone Galli; acquired 1636 by Cardinal Antonio Barberini [1608-1671], Palazzo Barberini, Rome; by inheritance to his nephew, Maffeo Barberini, Principe di Palestrina [d. 1685], Rome; by inheritance to his son, Urbano Barberini, Rome;[3] still in the Barberini collection, Rome, c. 1904-1905;[4] Elia Volpi [1858-1938], Florence; sold 1905 to (Colnaghi's, London and New York), on joint account with (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); sold 1906 to Charles M. Schwab [1862-1939], New York;[5] (his estate sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 3 December 1942, no. 32); purchased by Stephen Pichetto for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[6] gift 1952 to NGA. [1] In his final testament, drawn up in 1544, Bembo left his entire art collection to Torquato, and instructed him to integrate the objects then in Rome with the bulk of the collection in Padua. For about the next twenty years it remained complete; but thereafter Torquato began to dismantle it, sending important parts of it back to Rome for sale in 1581 and 1583. See Sabine Eiche, “On the Dispersal of Cardinal Bembo’s Collections,” _Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz_ 27 (1983): 353–359. Perhaps Titian’s portrait was sold from the Bembo collection around this time. [2] As pointed out by Jeremy Wood, “Van Dyck’s Cabinet de Titien: The Contents and Dispersal of His Collection,” _The Burlington Magazine_ 132 (1990): 681 n. 9, the picture is very likely to be identical with the portrait of Bembo by Titian acquired by the Sicilian nobleman Don Fabrizio Valguarnera from the dealer Ferrante Carlo before 1631. The portrait is mentioned twice in the documents relating to Valguarnera’s trial for theft in that year: first in an inventory of his possessions (“Il Ritratto di Monse Bembo è di mano di Titiano è quell’istesso che hò detto di sopra d’haver compro da Ferrante de Carolis”); and second in Carlo’s testimony to the court (“Un’ritratto dicono del Bembo di mano di Titiano grande dal mezzo in su’ del naturale”). See Jane Costello, “The Twelve Pictures ‘Ordered by Velasquez’ and the Trial of Valguarnera,” _Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes_ 13 (1950): 273, 276. [3] According to an inventory of Cardinal Barberini, the picture was acquired on 20 November 1636 from Leone Galli. See Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, _Seventeenth Century Barberini Documents and Inventories of Art_, New York, 1975: 41 no. 334: “Uno in tela con cornice di noce alto pmi cinque in circa un retratto di un Cardinale mano Chredosi della prima maniera de Titiano.” Despite the vagueness of the description, which fails to identify the sitter, the portrait is clearly identical with the one of Bembo listed in subsequent Barberini inventories. These include Cardinal Antonio’s inventories of 1644 (Lavin 1975, 166 no. 232) and 1671 (Lavin 1975, 295 no. 71), and the inventory of his bequests of 1672 (Lavin 1975, 345 no. 230), according to which it was inherited by his nephew. The portrait duly appears in the posthumous 1686 inventory of Maffeo’s legacy to his son (Lavin 1975, 409 no. 342). The evidence of the seventeenth-century Barberini inventories published by Lavin disproves the attempted identification by Wethey of the picture with a portrait of a cardinal by Titian that had been acquired for the family by Bernini before 1631; see Harold Wethey, _The Paintings of Titian_, 3 vols., London, 1969-1975: 2(1971):83. [4] According to the Getty Provenance Index, the painting is recorded in a 1730 inventory of Cardinal Francesco II Barberini (p. 35, no. 218): "3695 Un Ritratto del Cardle. Bembo a sedere alto pmi 5, largo pmi 4 incirca, con barba longa, e libro nella mano manca, con cornice liscia dorata, si dice mano del Titiano [attribution crossed out] in cattivo stato 50." The painting is still recorded in the Barberini collection by Oskar Fischel, _Tizian: Des Meisters Gemälde_, Stuttgart [u.a.], 1904: no. 72, and by George Lafenestre and Eugène Richtenberger, _La Peinture en Europe. Rome: Les musées, les collections particulières, les palais_, Paris, 1905: 157. [5] Details of ownership by Volpi, Colnaghi, and Knoedler, and the Schwab purchase date, are according to the Getty Provenance Index and the M. Knoedler & Co. archives, the latter courtesy in 2002 of Edye Weissler, Knoedler archivist and librarian (see the e-mail of 12 September 2002, in NGA curatorial files). The painting is in Colnaghi's private ledgers, and was Knoedler's London number 3828 and New York number 10755. The Knoedler archives citation reads "4/30/06, stock no. 10755, Titian Cardinal Bembo." See also M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Sales Book 8, 1900 November-1907 April, page 332, copy in NGA curatorial files. [6] According to the Getty Provenance Index; Pichetto was the Kress Foundation's curator and conservator. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/444.
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