Andrea dei Franceschi

ca. 1532

Titian Italian, ca.1488-1576

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Title Andrea dei Franceschi

Artwork Date ca. 1532

Artist Titian

Life Dates ca.1488-1576

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Venetian

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 31 1/4 × 25 inches (79.4 × 63.5 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 53.362

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Provenance

until 1786, Frederick II “the Great” of Prussia [1712-1786] (East wing of Picture Gallery at Sanssouci, Potsdam, Prussia)

1786-1806, by inheritance to Frederick William III, King of Prussia [1770-1840] (Picture Gallery at Sanssouci, Potsdam, Prussia)

1806, removed to (France). until 1883, Louis Viardot [1800-1883] (Paris, France)

1883-1910, by inheritance to Pauline Garcia [1821-1910] (Paris, France). 1928, sold to (Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA)

1928, collection of Edgar Bancroft Whitcomb [1866-1953] and Anna Scripps Whitcomb [1866-1953](Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1953-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Berenson, Bernard. "While On Tintoretto." In Festschrift für Max J. Friedländer. Leipzig, 1927, pp. 231–236 (ill.). [as in the collection of Messrs. Duveen, New York].

Fischel, Oskar. Tizian: Des Meisters Gemalde. Berlin, 1927, p. 277a.

Poglayen-Neuwall, Stephan. "Tizianstudien." Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst, N. F. IV (1927): p. 66ff.

Heil, Walter. The Sixth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: Paintings by Titian. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1928, unpaginated, cat. 4 (ill.) [as lent by Sir Joseph Duveen].

Washburn Freund, Frank. "Paintings by Titian in America." International Studio 90, no. 372 (May 1928): pp. 35–42, p. 40 (ill.).

Homes, Sir. Charles. "The Inscription upon Titian's Portrait of Andrea Franceschi." Burlington Magazine 55, no. 319 (October 1929): p. 159 (ill.).

Lee, Rensselaer, ed. "Abstracts from Current Periodicals." Parnassus 2, no. 2 (February 1930): pp. 40-41, p. 40.

Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 569.

Suida, Wilhelm. Tizian. Leipzig, 1933, pp. 86, 164, 183, pl. 136b (ill.).

Suida, Wilhelm. Tiziano. Rome, 1933, pp. 85, 160, 184, pl. 136b (ill.).

Suida, Wilhelm. Le Titian. Paris, 1935, pp. 88, 168, 191, pl. 136b (ill.).

Berenson, Bernard. Pitture Italiane del Rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 489.

Tietze, Hans. Tizian: Leben und Werk. Vienna, 1936, vol. 1: p. 273; vol. 2: pp. 286-287, pl. 127 (ill.).

Tietze, Hans. Titian: Paintings and Drawings. Vienna, 1937, pp. 320, 358, (fig. 127) [dates c. 1540].

Tietze, Hans. Titian: The Paintings and Drawings. New York, 1950, p. 369 [as a copy by an artist trained or influenced by Tintoretto].

Tietze, Hans. Tizian: Gemälde und Zeichnungen. London, 1950, p. 371.

"The Arts Commission Annual Report for the year 1953: Accessions." Bulletin of the DIA 33, no. 2 (1953-1954): pp. 51–59, p. 53.

Catalogue of the Paintings and Sculpture Given by Edgar B. Whitcomb and Anna Scripps Whitcomb to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1954, p. 107.

Pallucchini, Rodolfo. Tiziano, vol. 1. Bologna, 1956, p. 174.

Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. The Venetian School, London, 1957, vol. 1, p. 184.

Gore, John. "Five Portraits." The Burlington Magazine 100, no. 667 (October 1958): pp. 348, 351–354, p. 352.

The Human Image: A Commemorative Catalogue for the Opening of Cullinan Hall. Exh. cat., Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Houston, 1958, no. 29.

Paintings from the Collection of George Henry Alexander Clowes. Exh cat., John Herron Art Institute. Indianapolis, 1959, unpaginated, no. 55.

Valcanover, Francesco. Tutta la Pittura di Tiziano. Milan, 1960, vol. 1, pl. 214; vol. 2, p. 66.

The Arts of Man: A Selection from Ancient to Modern Times. Exh. cat., Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Dallas, 1962, p. 41, pl. 49 (ill.).

"The Arts Commission Annual Report: Loans from the institute’s collections." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 42, no. 3 (Spring 1963): pp. 48-49.

Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Checklist of the Paintings. Detroit, 1965, p.108.

Troche, E. Gunter. "Venetian Paintings of the Renaissance at the M. H. De Young Memorial Museum." The Art Quarterly 28 (1965): pp. 91–103, p. 98.

Pallucchini, Rodolfo. Tiziano, vol. 2. Florence, 1969, unpaginated, no. 207 (ill.).

Valcanover, Francesco. L'Opera completa di Tiziano. Milan, 1969, p. 107, no. 156.

Wethey, Harold E. The Painting of Titian. Vol. 2: The Portraits. London, 1971, p. 100 cat. 34, p. 101 cat. 35, pl. 63 [as best version; accepts Ridolfi's identification of sitter as Andrea de'Franceschi].

Fredericksen, Burton B. and Federico Zeri. Census Of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings In North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, pp. 202, 513, 580.

Rosand, David. "Titian's Portrait of the Virgin in the Temple and the Scuola della Carità." The Art Bulletin 58, no. 1 (March 1976): pp. 55–84, pp. 76, 79, (fig. 36) (ill.).

Shearman, John. The Early Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen. Cambridge, 1983, p. 270.

Hochmann, Michel. Peintres et Commanditaires a Venise (1540-1628). Paris, 1992, pp. 193-194.

Ridolfi, Carlo. The Life of Titian, trans. Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella. University Park, 1996, p. 125, note 312.

Rosand, David. Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto (revised ed.). Cambridge, 1997, pp. 92–93, (fig. 90) (ill.), p. 212, note 121.

Pedrocco, Filippo. Titian: The Complete Paintings. London, 2000, p. 152, no. 90 (ill.).

Humfrey, Peter, Timothy Clifford, Aidan Weston–Lewis and Michael Bury. The Age of Titian: Venetian Renaissance Art from Scottish Collections. Exh. cat., National Galleries of Scotland, 2004, p. 122.

Secrest, Meryle. 2004. Duveen: a life in art. New York, p. 494.

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Ilchman, Frederick. Titian Tintoretto Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Boston, 2009, pp. 65, 269 note 33.

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Howard, Deborah. "Titian’s Portraits of Grand Chancellor Andrea de’ Franceschi." Artibus et Historiae 74 (2016): pp. 139–151 (ill.).

Szépe, Helena Katalin. Venice Illuminated: Power and Painting in Renaissance Manuscripts. New Haven and London, 2018, p. 303, note 32.

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