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Dimensions: 44 by 35 1/2 in.; 112 by 89.9 cm.
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Provenance: PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
Earls of Radnor, Longford Castle, by 1854 until after 1932;
Private Collection, Rome, by 1950;
Machada Coehlo, Rio de Janeiro, by 1957;
Their sale, London, Sotheby's, December, 1992, lot 43;
Where purchased by the present owner.
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Literature: G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, 1854, vol. III, p. 140, (as by Titian);
C. Phillips, The Collection of Pictures at Langford Castle, in The Art Journal, London 1897, pp. 143-4, reproduced as (Tintoretto?, "Portrait of a Venetian Nobleman");
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, London and New York 1932, p. 561, as by Tintoretto;
R. Pallucchini, La Giovinezza del Tintoretto, 1950, p. 119, and p. 160 note 107, reproduced fig. 188 (as by Tintoretto);
P. De Vecchi, L'Opera completa del Tintoretto, Milan 1970, pp. 92-93, no. 68, (as by Tintoretto);
P. Rossi, Jacopo Tintoretto, vol. 1, I Ritratti, Milan 1973, p. 121, fig. 28 (as by Tintoretto).
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Notes: First attributed to Titian, and implausibly described as a Portrait of Cesare Borgia when seen by Waagen at Longford Castle (see Literature below), C. Phillips correctly described the present work as attributed to, "Tintoretto or his entourage", observing that " The picture, if his own, must be of the early time, when he still affected the golden Titian-esque glow which is not found to the same extent in his later works, in which the transitional tones and shadows of the flesh are greyer." The attribution to Tintoretto has subsequently been endorsed by Berenson (1932 and 1957), Pallucchini who proposed an early date of circa 1548 or earlier, De Vecchi who dated it to circa 1548-9, and Rossi who dated it to 1547-8.
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