JACOPO TINTORETTO
42 1/2 x 37 1/4 in
Further images
Provenance
Probably, the collection of Tommaso Rangone (1493–1577), Venice, and perhaps listed in his will, drawn up a month before he died in September 1577, as ‘imago mea Tintoreti tyanea’ (see E. Weddigen, ‘Thomas Philologus Ravennas: Gelehrter, Wohltäter and Mäzen’, in Saggi e memorie di storia dell’arte, 9, 1974, p. 52);
Count Melzi d’Eril;
Marchese Zaccaria, Milan;
With Jacob M. Heimann, New York, by 1940;
Anne R. and Amy Putnam, San Diego;
By whom gifted to the Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, 1950 (inv. no. 1950.113);
By whom sold, Sotheby’s, New York, 11 June 2020, lot 1 (as attributed to Tintoretto and workshop), where acquired by the present owner.
Exhibitions
New York, Corona Park, World's Fair, 1939–40;
Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Four Centuries of Venetian Painting, March 1940, no. 58 (as a portrait of Tommaso Rangone);
Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Masterpieces of Art from European and American Collections, 1 April–31 May 1941, no. 56.
Literature
A. Venturi, 'Per il Tintoretto', L’Arte, 40, October 1937, pp. 322–3;
H. Tietze, Four Centuries of Venetian Painting, exh. cat., Toledo, 1940, cat. no. 58;
E. P. Richardson, Masterpieces of Art from European and American Collections, exh. cat., Detroit, 1941, p. 21, cat. no. 56;
A. Millier, 'San Diego Re-opens Fine Art Academy in Beautiful Balboa Park', Art Digest, 22.7, 1 January 1948, p. 9;
J. D. Morse, Old Masters in America, New York, 1955, p. 160;
The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego Catalogue, San Diego, 1960, p. 69;
B. B. Fredericksen, Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings, Cambridge, 1972, pp. 201, 520, 632 (as follower of Jacopo Tintoretto);
E. Weddigen, ‘Thomas Philologus Ravennas: Gelehrter, Wohltäter and Mäzen’, in Saggi e memorie di storia dell’arte, 9, 1974, pp. 7–76 (p. 52);
J. Marciari, Italian, Spanish, and French Paintings before 1850 in the San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, 2015, pp. 187–9, no. 37, reproduced (dated c.1577, as a late workshop follower of Tintoretto).