About the Artwork
Man Holding a Flute
ca. between 1560 and 1565
Titian
ca.1488-1576
Italian
Venetian
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 39 7/16 × 30 9/16 × 5/8 inches (100.2 × 77.6 × 1.6 cm) Framed: 48 1/8 × 39 1/2 × 3 1/8 inches (122.2 × 100.3 × 7.9 cm) Image: 39 5/16 × 30 3/16 × 1/16 inches (99.8 × 76.6 × 0.1 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase
27.385
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, on table, lower left: TITIANUS F[ECIT].
Inscribed, on verso, on label: Butler Esq | No frame | July 26/88
Provenance
Possibly Charles Butler Esquire [1821-1910] (Warren Wood, Hatfield, and Connaught Place, England)
Circa 1906-1925, Baron von Stumm, possibly Ferdinand Eduard [1843-1925] (Castle Rauischholzhausen, Hesse, Germany)
1926, (Van Diemen and Co., Berlin, Germany)
1927-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Fifth Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, October 1927, p. 21, cat. 22.
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Helen W. Harvey. "Loan Exhibitions." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 9, no. 1 (October 1927): 8–9, p. 8.
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Heil, Walter. The Sixth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: Paintings by Titian. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1928, unpaginated, cat. 20 (ill.).
Mather Jr., Frank Jewett. "Some Old Masters of Venice." The Arts 13, no. 1 (1928): 18–24, p. 23.
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Exhibition of Italian Art 1200–1900. Exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts. London, 1930, p. 338. [see no. 739]
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Venturi, Lionello. Pitture italiane in America. Milan, 1931, pl. 390 (ill.).
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 558. [possibly listed as "Doge Pasquale Cicgona" by Tintoretto.]
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Suida, Wilhelm. Tizian. Leipzig, 1933, pp. 111, 177, 182, pl. 281 (ill.).
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Suida, Wilhelm. Le Titien. Paris, 1935, pp. 114, 182, 191, pl. 281 (ill.).
Centennial Exhibition of Paintings, Sculptures, and Graphic Arts. Exh. cat., Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Dallas, 1936, pp. 21, 23 (ill.). [see no. 7]
Howard, Richard Foster, "Dallas and the Centennial Exhibition." The American Magazine of Art 29, no. 7 (July 1936): 470–476, p. 473.
Tietze, Hans. Tizian: Leben und Werk. Vienna, 1936, vol. 1: pp. 250, 274; vol. 2: pl. 270 (ill.), p. 286.
"The Arts Commission Annual Report for the Year 1936: Loans From the Institute Collections for 1936" Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 16, no. 5 (February 1937): 82–83, p. 83.
Tietze, Hans. Titian: Paintings and Drawings. Vienna, 1937, pp. 320, 359, pl. 270 (ill.).
Exhibition of Venetian Painting from the Fifteenth Century through the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., California Palace of Legion of Honor. San Francisco, 1938, cat. 72.
"The Arts Commission Annual Report for the Year 1938: Loans From the Institute Collections for 1938" Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit 18, no. 5 (February 1939): 17–19, p. 19.
Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300–1800, Masterpieces of Art, compiled by George Henry McCall, ed. William R. Valentiner. New York, 1939, p. 189, cat. 386.
"Museum Notes." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 18, no. 8 (May 1939): p. 8.
"The Arts Commission Annual Report for the Year 1939: Loans From the Institute Collections for 1939." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 19, no. 5 (February 1940): 62–63, p. 63.
Loan Exhibition of Great Paintings In Aid Of Allied Merchant Seamen. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Toronto. Toronto, 1944, p. 49, no. 76.
Richardson, Edgar Preston, ed. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 134, no. 226.
Richardson, Edgar Preston. "A Cistercian Abbot by Mabuse." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 24, no. 5 (1945): 58-62, p. 58.
"The Arts Commission Annual Report for the Year 1947: Care of the Collections" Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 27, no. 52 (1948): 34–36, p. 35.
Woolfenden, William E. "Titian (1477–1576), Portrait of a Man Holding a Flute." In Favorite Paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1948, pp. 15–19, no. II, pl. II (ill.).
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Tietze, Hans. Titian: The Paintings and Drawings. London, 1950, pp. 369, 413, pl. 239 (ill.).
Tietze, Hans. Tizian: Gemälde und Zeichnungen, 2nd ed. London, 1950, pp. 371, 415, pl. 239 (ill.).
Pallucchini, Rodolfo. Tiziano. Bologna, 1953/54, vol. 2, p. 116.
Le Vie Del Mondo 16, no. 4 (April 1954): p. 365.
Dell'Acqua, Gian Alberto. Tiziano. Milan, 1955, pp. 90, 130, fig. 169 (ill.).
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Valcanover, Francesco. Tutta la pittura di Tiziano. Milan, 1960, vol. 2, p. 45, pl. 94 (ill.).
Grigaut, Paul L., ed. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1963, pp. 7–8, 85 (ill.).
Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Checklist of Paintings before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 108.
Valcanover, Francesco. All the Paintings of Titian, part 3. London, 1965, p. 47, pl. 94 (ill.).
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