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George Wilbraham, M.P. [1779-1852], Delamere House, near Northwich, Cheshire, by 1829;[1] by inheritance to his son, George Fortescue Wilbraham [1815-1885], Delamere House;[2] by inheritance to his son, Major Hugh Edward Wilbraham, M.B.E. [1857-1930], Delamere House; purchased January 1929 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris);[3] sold 1938 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1939 to NGA.

[1] The painting was lent by Wilbraham to the British Institution in 1829.

[2] The painting was lent by Wilbraham to the Royal Academy in 1883.

[3] The painting was seen at Wilbraham's by Duveen agents in 1927, per the Duveen "Scout book," but at that time Wilbraham indicated he was not interested in selling his pictures. He changed his mind by October 1928, and received the court order necessary to make the sale on 14 January 1929 (Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: reel 71, box 201, folder 1; reel 150, box 295, folder 18; reel 158, box 303, folder 7; copies in NGA curatorial files).

Exhibition History

1829
British Institution, London, 1829, no. 161, as Titian's Daughter.
1883
Royal Academy, London, 1883, no. 191, as Caterina Coronaro.
1915
The Venetian School. Pictures by Titian and his Contemporaries. Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1915, no. 19, plate XII
1939
Masterpieces of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300-1800, New York World's Fair, 1939, no. 383.
1940
Italian Renaissance Portraits, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1940, no. 21.
1996
Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art de Washington, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1996-1997, unnumbered catalogue, 46-47, color repro.
1999
Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1999, no. 78, repro.

Bibliography

1941
Duveen 1941, fig. 155-157, as Portrait of Giulia di Gonzaga-Colonna.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 197-198, as Portrait of a Lady (Giulia di Gonzaga-Colonna ?).
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 247, repro. 198, as Portrait of a Lady (Giulia di Gonzaga-Colonna ?).
1944
Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 53, repro.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 125, repro.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 194, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 129
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 117, repro.
1968
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 186-187, fig. 435.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 344, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:495-496, II:pl. 349, as Attributed to Titian.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 210, no. 254, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 395, repro.

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