''Portrait of Ranuccio Farnese'' is a c.1542 oil on canvas painting of
Ranuccio Farnese by
Titian, now in the
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of char ...
in Washington.
One of the first portraits of a
Farnese by the artist, it is signed "Titianvs F.".
History
Its subject was fourth son of
Pier Luigi Farnese,
Duke of Parma
The Duke of Parma and Piacenza () was the ruler of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza, a historical state of Northern Italy, which existed between 1545 and 1802, and again from 1814 to 1859.
The Duke of Parma was also Duke of Piacenza, except ...
and commander of the papal armies. It shows him aged 12 and - as related in a letter by his elder brother
Alessandro Farnese the Younger - was produced while Ranuccio was in
Parma. It was commissioned by bishop Cornaro to give to Ranuccio's mother
Gerolama Orsini. Initially in the
Farnese Collection in Rome and Parma, it was then in the Bourbon collection in Naples from 1734 until just after 1816. It was then brought to London by Sir George Donaldson and sold to
John Charles Robinson in 1880 then to
Francis Cook sometime before 1885. It was finally bought in 1947 by Gualtiero Volterra for Count
Alessandro Contini Bonacossi of Florence, who sold it on to
Samuel Henry Kress in 1948, from whose foundation it passed to its present owner in 1952.
See also
*
List of works by Titian
References
Bibliography
* Francesco Valcanover, ''L'opera completa di Tiziano'', Rizzoli, Milano 1969.
* Cecilia Gibellini, ''Tiziano'', collana ''I Classici dell'arte'', Rizzoli, Milano 2003.
Farnese
Paintings in the National Gallery of Art
1542 paintings
Farnese Collection
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