About the Artwork
Federico, Prince of Urbino, at the Age of Eighteen Months
1606
Alessandro Vitali
1580-1630
Italian
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Framed: 49 3/4 × 37 1/2 × 4 inches (126.4 × 95.3 × 10.2 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Robert H. Tannahill
44.215
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, across top: FEDERICO.PRINC[E]D.VRB[O],DI ETA` DI MESICIEC.[8]1606.
Provenance
Duke Francesco Maria II della Rovere (Urbino, Italy)
mid-18th century, purchased by Richard Dalton for the Earl Grosvenor, probably Richard, first Earl Grosvenor [1731-1802] (England)
June 27, 1807, 2nd Earl Grosvenor [Coxe] sale (London, England) lots 58 and 59
May 1808, sale held by European Museum (London, England) lots 410 and 411
February 17, 1809, sold by (Christie's, London, England) European museum sale, lots 51 and 54
1809, purchased by J.L. Tuffen
by 1908, Dan Fellows Platt (Englewood, New Jersey)
early 1940s, Ferargil, Inc. (New York, New York, USA)
1943, M. Knoedler & Co. (New York, New York, USA)
Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)
1944-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Platt, D.F. Through Italy in Car and Camera. New York, 1908, pp. 224, 323.
Perkins, F.M. "Dipiniti italiani nella raccolta Platt." Rassegna D'Arte 11, no. 1 (January 1911): pp. 1-6, p. 6 (ill.). [as by Vitali.]
Parnassus 4 (October 1932): p. 11 (ill.).
Comstock, H. "Two Baroque Portraits of Federico, Prince of Urbino." Connoisseur 94 (April 1935): pp. 224-226 (ill.).
Valentiner, W. R. "Two Child Portraits by Federico Barocci." Bulletin of the DIA 24, no. 3 (1944-1945): pp. 30-35 (ill.).
Valentiner, W.R. "The Last Prince of Urbino." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 27 (January 1945) pp. 22-38.
Olsen, H. Federico Barocci. A Critical Study in Italian Cinquecento Painting. Uppsala, 1955, p. 163, no. 62b.
Olsen, H. Federico Barocci. Copenhagen, 1962, pp. 228-229, no. 79B, pl. 121b. [as studio of Barocci, probably Alessandro Vitali.]
Richardson, E.P., ed. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 3rd ed. Detroit, 1966, p. 95, (ill.).
Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 15.
The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner. New York, 1996, vol. 3, p. 253.
Bissell, R.W., A. Derstine, and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 9, 214-221, cat. no. 68.
Derstine, Andria. "The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, p. 97.
Verstegen, Ian. "I ritratti di Vitali di Federico Ubaldo della Rovere: Ipotesi sulla collaborazione di Barocci." In Sulle orme di Federico Barocci. Tecnique pittoriche e identità culturale. Rome, 2022, pp. 111-117, p. 112 (fig. 1).
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Alessandro Vitali, Federico, Prince of Urbino, at the Age of Eighteen Months, 1606, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill, 44.215.
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