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Titian

An Eagle, 1560/1565

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper on decorated mount

Dimensions

overall (upper corners cut): 9.3 × 9.3 cm (3 11/16 × 3 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of J. Carter Brown, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1991.62.1

Artists / Makers

Titian (artist) Venetian, 1488/1490 - 1576

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Inscription

by later hand on mount, lower left in graphite: verso Sir J. Reynolds (refers to collectors mark)

Marks and Labels

Sir Joshua Reynolds (Lugt 2364; Thomas Banks (Lugt 2423); Sir E. J. Poynter (Lugt 874)

Provenance

Prosper Henry Lankrink [1628-1692] (Lugt 2090), London; Sir Joshua Reynolds [1723-1792] (Lugt 2363), London; Thomas Banks [1735-1805] (Lugt 1423), London; Sir Edward John Poynter [1836-1919] (Lugt 874), London; Victor Koch and Mrs. Flora Koch, London; (sale, London, Christie's, 18 April 1967, no. 126, as attrib. to Leonardo da Vinci); to Schreiber; private collection (sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 July 1973, no. 67, as attrib. to Leonardo da Vinci); P. & D. Colnaghi Co., Ltd.; J. Carter Brown [1935-2002], Washington; given to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Banks, Thomas
Brown, J. Carter, Mr.
Koch, Victor
Lankrink, Prosper Henry
Poynter, Edward John, Sir
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir

Exhibition History

1974: NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 74 (Konrad Oberhuber).

1976: Disegni di Tiziano e della sua cerchia, Cini Foundation, Venice, 1976, no. 18 (Konrad Oberhuber).

1978: NGA Master Drawings 1978, 40 (Andrew Robison).

1991: Art for the Nation, Gifts in Honor fo the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991, 10-11.

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 23.

Bibliography

1967: The Burlington Magazine 109 (April 1967): lxxxi, repro. in Christie's advertisement, as attrib. to Leonardo da Vinci.

1974: Recent Acquistiions and Promised Gifts: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974: 119.

1976: Disegni di Tiziano e della sua cerchia. Exh. cat. Neri Pozza, Venice, 1976: 68, and pl. 18.

1978: Muraro, Michelangelo. "Grafica Tizianesca." In Tiziano e il Manierismo Europeo. Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed. Florence, 1978: 137.

1979: Pignatti, Terisio. Tiziano Disegni. Florence, 1979: VI.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 664, no. 1052, color repro.

1987: Wethey, Harold. Titian and His Drawings, with Reference to Giorgione and Some CLose Contemporaries. Princeton, 1987: 56-57, 94, note 241, 148, no. 25, fig. 112.

1988: Chiari, Maria Agnese. "Per un catalogo ragionato dei disegni di Tiziano," in Saggi e Memorie di storia dell'arte 16 (1988): 31-32, 46, no. 17, 229, fig. 38.

1989: Chiari Moretto Wiel, Maria Agnese. Tiziano, Corpus dei disegni autografi. Milan, 1989: 17, 87-88, no. 17.

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: 10-11.

2001: Rearick, William R. Il disegno veneziano del Cinquecento. Milan, 2001: 65

2013: Harris, Neil. Capital Culture: J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience. Chicago and London, 2013: 417, 477.