Giorgione and Titian Giorgione Venetian, 1477/1478 - 1510 Titian Venetian, c. 1490 - 1576 Portrait of a Venetian Gentleman, c. 1510 oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1939.1.258

From the Tour: Giorgione and the High Renaissance in Venice
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Provenance

Robert P. Nichols, London. William Graham [1817-1885], London; (his estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 2-3 and 8-10 April 1886, 5th day, no. 450, as Portrait of a Lawyer); (Colnaghi's, London and New York). Henry Doetsch, London; (his sale, Christie's, London, 22 June 1895, no. 48, as Licinio). George Kemp, 1st baron Rochdale [d. 1945], Beechwood Hall, Rochdale, Lancashire, by 1897 until at least 1905. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York). Henry Goldman [1857-1937], New York, 1920 until at least 1926.[1] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1939 to NGA.

[1] According to Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America, New York, 1941. [2] According to Kress files in NGA curatorial records.

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• Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
• Doetsch, Henry
• Duveen Brothers, Inc.
• Goldman, Henry
• Graham, William
• Kemp, George, 1st baron Rochdale
• Kress Foundation, Samuel H. (Kress number K475)
• Nichols, Robert P.

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