Ranuccio Farnese
1541-1542
Painter, Venetian, 1488/1490 - 1576
Ranuccio Farnese was 11 years old when Titian began to paint his portrait. Adult responsibility came to Ranuccio when he was still a child, as Titian brilliantly conveyed through the cloak of office, too large and heavy, sliding off the boy’s small shoulders.
When this painting was commissioned, Ranuccio had been sent to Venice by his grandfather, Pope Paul III, to become prior of an important property belonging to the Knights of Malta. A member of the powerful and aristocratic Farnese family, Ranuccio went on to an illustrious ecclesiastical career. He was made archbishop of Naples at the age of 14; by the time he was 19, he was patriarch of Constantinople and archbishop of Ravenna. He became archbishop of Milan in 1564, shortly before dying when he was only 35 years old.
Portraits by Titian were in great demand, distinguished as they were for their remarkable insight into character and their brilliant technique. Here, he limited his palette to black, white, and rose and enlivened the surface with light: the dull gleam rippling over the sleeves of the velvet cloak, the pattern flickering across the slashed doublet, and the changing reflections on the satin Maltese Cross.
Titian may have been motivated to approach this painting with particular care in the hope of securing papal patronage and work with the wealthy and influential Farneses. With the success of Ranuccio’s depiction, Titian was soon invited to paint a portrait of Paul III. His initial contacts with the papal family were followed by numerous additional Farnese commissions.
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 11
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 89.7 x 73.6 cm (35 5/16 x 29 in.)
framed: 123.83 × 108.9 × 9.53 cm (48 3/4 × 42 7/8 × 3 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1952.2.11
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Farnese family, Parma, by 1644;[1] Farnese family, Palazzo del Giardino, Parma, by 1680;[2] Farnese family, Palazzo della Pilotta, Parma, by 1708;[3] by inheritance 1734 to the Bourbon collection, Naples;[4] Bourbon collection, Palazzo di Capodimonte, Naples, by 1765;[5] Bourbon collection, Palazzo Francavilla, Naples, by 1802;[6] Bourbon collection, Palazzo degli Studi, Naples, by 1816.[7] brought from Naples to London by Sir George Donaldson [1845-1925], London;[8] sold May 1880 to Sir John Charles Robinson [1824-1913], London; sold to Sir Francis Cook, 1st bt. [1817-1901], Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, by 1885;[9] by inheritance to his son, Sir Frederick Lucas Cook, 2nd bt. [1844-1920], Doughty House; by inheritance to his son, Sir Herbert Frederick Cook, 3rd bt. [1868-1939], Doughty House; by inheritance to his son, Sir Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, 4th bt. [1907-1978], Doughty House, and Cothay Manor, Somerset; sold June or July 1947 to (Gualtiero Volterra, London) for (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence);[10] sold July 1948 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[11] gift 1952 to NGA.
[1] The portrait is recorded in an inventory of the pictures in the Palazzo Farnese drawn up in 1644 as follows: “4324. Un quadro in tela con cornice grande intagliata a basso relievo et indorata, con il ritratto del S.r cardinale S. Angelo giovanetto con l’habito di Malta, mano di Titiano.” See Bertrand Jestaz, ed., L’inventaire du Palais et des propriétés Farnèse à Rome en 1644, Vol. 3, Pt. 3: Le Palais Farnèse, Rome, 1994: 171. It is again recorded there in an inventory of 1653: see Giuseppe Bertini, La Galleria del Duca di Parma: Storia di una collezione, Bologna, 1987: 89.
[2] A Farnese inventory of 1680 describes the picture as follows: “Ritratto di un giovinetto vestito di rosso con sopraveste nera sopra della quale la croce di Cavaliere di Malta: tiene nella destra un guanto di Tiziano.” See: Amadeo Ronchini, “Delle relazioni di Tiziano coi Farnesi,” Atti e memorie delle RR Deputazioni di Storia Patria per le Provincie Modenesi e Parmensi 2 (1864): 145; Giuseppe Campori, Raccolta di cataloghi ed inventarii inediti, Modena, 1870: 239; Giuseppe Bertini, La Galleria del Duca di Parma: Storia di una collezione, Bologna, 1987: 89.
[3] For the Farnese inventory of 1708, see Giuseppe Bertini, La Galleria del Duca di Parma: Storia di una collezione, Bologna, 1987: 89. See also Descrizione per alfabetto di cento quadri de’ più famosi, e dipinti da i più insigni pittori del modo, che si osservano nella Galleria Farnese di Parma . . ., Parma[?], 1725: 46.
[4] The Farnese collection was transferred to Naples in 1734, probably initially to the Palazzo Reale, when it was inherited by Charles of Bourbon, king of Naples.
[5] Jérôme de Lalande, Voyage d’un français en Italie fait dans les années 1765 et 1766, 8 vols., Paris, 1769: 6:174; see also Giuseppe Sigismondo, Descrizione della città di Napoli e suoi borghi, 3 vols., Naples, 1788-1789: 3(1789):48. As pointed out by M. Utili (I Farnese: Arte e collezionismo, eds. Lucia Fornari Schianchi and Nicola Spinosa, exh. cat. Palazzo Ducale, Colorno; Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Milan, 1995: 206), the picture was probably transferred from the Palazzo Reale to the Palazzo di Capodimonte as part of the reorganization of the royal collection undertaken by Padre Giovanni Maria della Torre between 1756 and 1764.
[6] A. Filangieri di Candida, “La galleria nazionale di Napoli,” Le gallerie nazionali iItaliane 5 (1902): 304, no. 34. As pointed out by M. Utili (see note 5), the picture is probably identical with a “ritratto di giovane di Tiziano,” carried off to Rome in 1799 by French troops, together with other pictures from the royal collection, but returned to Naples before 1802.
[7] According to the inventory compiled by Paterno in 1816, quoted by M. Utili (see note 5). The picture appears to have left the Bourbon collection soon afterwards.
[8] According to Tancred Borenius, Sir Francis Cook acquired the painting through Sir George Donaldson. See: Tancred Borenius, A Catalogue of the Paintings at Doughty House, Richmond, and Elsewhere in the Collection of Sir Frederick Cook Bt.: Italian Schools. Vol. I, Pt. 2, ed. Herbert Cook, London, 1913: 170.
[9] According to Robinson's account book (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; copy of relevant page in NGA curatorial files). Robinson, in “The Gallery of Pictures of Old Masters, formed by Francis Cook, Esq., of Richmond,” The Art Journal (1885): 136, records the picture in the Cook collection, and reports that it had been “brought to England a few years ago by an Italian gentleman from Naples.”
[10] See copy of correspondence in NGA curatorial files, from the Cook Collection Archive in care of John Somerville, England. Volterra was Contini Bonacossi's agent in London. For the formation and dispersal of the Cook collection, see Elon Danziger, “The Cook Collection, Its Founder and Its Inheritors,” The Burlington Magazine 146 (2004): 444–458.
[11] The Kress Foundation made an offer to Contini Bonacossi on 7 June 1948 for a group of twenty-eight paintings, including Titian's "Portrait of a Boy;" the offer was accepted on 11 July 1948 (see copies of correspondence in NGA curatorial files, see also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1760.).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1976
Zapadnoevropeiskaia i Amerikanskaia zhivopis is muzeev ssha [West European and American Painting from the Museums of USA], State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad; State Pushkin Museum, Moscow; State Museums, Kiev and Minsk, 1976, unpaginated and unnumbered catalogue.
1983
The Genius of Venice 1500-1600, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1983-1984, no. 121, repro.
1990
Tiziano [NGA title: Titian: Prince of Painters], Palazzo Ducale, Venice; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990-1991, no. 33, repro.
1994
A Gift to America: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, four venues, 1994-1995, no. 2, repro. (shown only at first two venues: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston).
1995
I Farnese: Arte e Collezionismo, Palazzo Ducale di Colorno, Parma; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, 1995-1996, no. 26, repro. (shown only in Munich and Naples).
2003
Titian, The National Gallery, London; Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2003, no. 25 (English catalogue), no. 22 (Spanish catalogue), repros.
2009
Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2009-2010, no. 42 (English catalogue), no. 43 (French catalogue), repros.
2013
Tiziano, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2013, no. 22, repro.
2015
Loan for display with permanent collection, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 2015.
2021
Remember Me: Renaissance Portraits, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2021, fig. 37, repro.
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1725
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1939
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1940
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1944
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1951
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1952
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1953
Pallucchini, Rodolfo. Tiziano. Lezioni di storia dell’arte. 2 vols. Bologna, 1953-1954: 1:209, 212; 2:11, 16.
1955
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1957
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1959
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Early Italian Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1959 (Booklet Number Three in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): pl. 75.
Kress 1957, 191, repro.
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1960
Valcanover, Francesco. Tutta la pittura di Tiziano. 2 vols. Milan, 1960: 1:73.
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1961
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1962
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1964
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1965
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1966
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1967
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1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 116, repro.
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1969
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1972
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1975
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1976
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1977
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1978
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1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:483-485; 2:pl. 344.
1980
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1983
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1984
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1985
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1986
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1987
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1989
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1990
Campbell, Lorne. Renaissance Portraits: European Portrait-Painting in the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries. New Haven, 1990: 178-179, 181, color fig. 194,195.
Titian, Prince of Painters. Exh. cat. Palazzo Ducale, Venice; National Gallery of Art, Washington. Venice, 1990: 244.
Zapperi, Roberto. Tiziano, Paolo III e i suoi nipoti: Nepotismo e ritratto di stato. Turin, 1990: 27.
1991
Zapperi, Roberto. “Tiziano e i Farnese: Aspetti economici del rapporto di committenza.” Bolletino d’arte 76 (1991): 39.
1992
National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 101, repro.
Robertson, Clare. Il Gran Cardinale: Alessandro Farnese, Patron of the Arts. New Haven and London, 1992: 69-70.
1993
Oberhuber, Konrad. “La mostra di Tiziano a Venezia.” Arte Veneta 44 (1993): 79.
1994
Jaffe, Michael. "On Some Portraits Painted by Van Dyck in Italy, Mainly in Genoa." Studies in the History of Art 46 (1994): 141-142.
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1995
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1998
Kaminsky, Marion. Titian. Cologne, 1998: 76-77.
1999
Cole, Bruce. Titian and Venetian Painting, 1450-1590. Boulder, 1999: 110-112.
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2001
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2003
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2004
Danziger, Elon. "The Cook Collection: Its Founder and Its Inheritors." The Burlington Magazine 146, no. 1216 (July 2004): 457.
Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 102-103, no. 78, color repro.
2006
Fletcher, Jennifer. “‘La sembianza vera.’ I ritratti di Tiziano.” In Tiziano e il ritratto di corte da Raffaello ai Carracci. Edited by Nicola Spinosa. Exh. cat. Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, 2006: 40.
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2007
Humfrey, Peter. Titian: The Complete Paintings. Ghent and New York, 2007: 187.
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Romani, Vittoria. Tiziano e il tardo rinascimento a Venezia: Jacopo Bassano, Jacopo Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese. Florence, 2007: 114, 135.
2008
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2009
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2011
Biferali, Frabrizio. Tiziano: Il genio e il potere. Rome, 2011: 161.
2012
Gentili, Augusto. Tiziano. Milan, 2012: 210-212.
Hale, Sheila. Titian: His Life. London, 2012: 437.
2013
Smith, Zadie. "Man vs. Corpse." New York Review of Books 60, no. 19 (December 5, 2013): 16, color fig.
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Marinelli, Sergio. “Pietro Bembo nella storia della pittura.” In Pietro Bembo e le arti. Edited by Guido Beltramini, Howard Burns, and Davide Gasparotto. Venice, 2013: 476-477.
Avery-Quash, Susanna. “Titian at the National Gallery, London: An Unchanging Reputation?” In The Reception of Titian in Britain: From Reynolds to Ruskin. Edited by Peter Humfrey. Turnhout, 2013: 224.
2014
Bouvrande, Isabelle. Le Coloris Vénitien à la Renaissance. Autour de Titien. Paris, 2014: 167-169.
2015
Lacourture, Fabien. “’You Will Be a Man, My Son’: Signs of Masculinity and Virility in Italian Renaissance Paintings of Boys.” In The Early Modern Child in Art and History. Edited by Matthew Knox Averett. The Body, Gender and Culture 18. Oxford and New York, 2015: 108-110, fig. 6.5.
2025
Healy, Rachel. "Three men and an abbey:the Cornaro triple portrait." _Renaissance Studies (21 April, 2025): 20, fig. 9. https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12989.
Inscriptions
center right: TITIANVS / .f.
Wikidata ID
Q12146958