Master Paintings
Master Paintings
Girolamo Dente, called Girolamo di Tiziano
Allegory of the Four Seasons
Auction Closed
May 25, 03:13 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
Lot Details
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Girolamo Dente, called Girolamo di Tiziano
Cèneda circa 1510 - after 1572 Venice
Allegory of the Four Seasons
signed lower left: HIE MO D TITIANI / No 21
oil on canvas
canvas: 63½ by 69⅜ in.; 161.3 by 176.2 cm.
framed: 72½ by 78¾ in.; 181.6 by 200.0 cm.
Possibly Vittoria della Rovere de'Medici (1622-1694), Florence, (1656 inv., “un quadro in tela dipintovi una Stagione di Tizziano”);
Possibly Olimpia Aldobrandini (1623-1681), Rome, by 1665;
Possibly by descent to her son, Prince Giovan Battista Borghese (1639-1717), Rome (7 August 1682 inv., “un quadro Grande in tela con le quattro Staggione di Titiano, alto palmi sette, con cornice dorata”);
George Henry Grey, Earl of Stamford and Warrington (1827-1883), Enville Hall, Staffordshire, and Dunham Massey, Cheshire, by 1857;
Thence by inheritance to Sir John Foley Grey, Baronet, Enville Hall, Stourbridge, and The Lodge, Malvern;
His sale, London, Christie’s, 15 June 1928, lot 110 (Titian, “Autumn”);
Where acquired by Mellaart, £735;
Private collector, Paris, by 1931;
Private collector, Madrid, after 1958;
With Gallery Linares, Madrid;
Private collector, Buenos Aires, Argentina, circa 1990;
With López de Aragón, Madrid;
With Coll & Cortés Galleries, Madrid and London, by 2015;
Thereafter acquired by the present owner.
Possibly Olimpia Aldobrandini (1623-1681), Rome, by 1665;
Possibly by descent to her son, Prince Giovan Battista Borghese (1639-1717), Rome (7 August 1682 inv., “un quadro Grande in tela con le quattro Staggione di Titiano, alto palmi sette, con cornice dorata”);
George Henry Grey, Earl of Stamford and Warrington (1827-1883), Enville Hall, Staffordshire, and Dunham Massey, Cheshire, by 1857;
Thence by inheritance to Sir John Foley Grey, Baronet, Enville Hall, Stourbridge, and The Lodge, Malvern;
His sale, London, Christie’s, 15 June 1928, lot 110 (Titian, “Autumn”);
Where acquired by Mellaart, £735;
Private collector, Paris, by 1931;
Private collector, Madrid, after 1958;
With Gallery Linares, Madrid;
Private collector, Buenos Aires, Argentina, circa 1990;
With López de Aragón, Madrid;
With Coll & Cortés Galleries, Madrid and London, by 2015;
Thereafter acquired by the present owner.
Catalogue of the Art Treasures of the United Kingdom Collected at Manchester, London 1857, p. 32, cat. no. 292 (Titian, An Allegory);
G. Scharf, Scharf Sketchbook 48, 1857, p. 70 [London, National Portrait Gallery, inv. no. NPG 7_3_4_2_58_72];
G. Scharf, A Handbook to the Paintings by Ancient Masters in the Art Treasures Exhibition, London 1857, p. 38 (Titian allegory);
H. Detlev, “Girolamo di Tiziano,” in Burlington Magazine 65, no. 377 (August 1934), pp. 84, 89, reproduced fig. A;
J. Zarnowski, “L’atelier de Titien, Girolamo di Tiziano,” in Dawna Sztuka 1, no. 2 (1938), pp. 113-121, reproduced figs. 1-3;
“Girolamo di Tiziano,” in American Journal of Archaeology 42, no. 3 (July-September 1938), p. 398;
Possibly P. della Pergola, "Gli inventari Aldobrandini: l'Inventario del 1682," in Arte Antica e Moderna 6 (1963), p. 69, no. 222;
R. Fisher, “Titian’s Assistants During the Later Years,” PhD Thesis, Harvard University, 1958 (1977), pp. 33-34, 38, 41, reproduced fig. 22;
Possibly G. Agostini, in Tiziano nelle Gallerie fiorentine, Florence 1978, p. 164, no. 43;
G. Fossaluzza, "Per Ludovico Fiumicelli, Giovan Pietro Meloni e Girolamo Denti," in Arte Veneta 36 (1982), pp. 140-141;
M. Lucco, "Il Cinquecento, Parte prima e seconda," in Le pitture del Santo di Padova, C. Semenzato (ed.), Vicenza 1984, vol. 1, pp. 140-141;
S. Claut, "All'ombra di Tiziano, Contributo per Girolamo Denti," in Antichità Viva 25, nos. 5-6 (1986), pp. 16-17, reproduced fig. 1;
G.N. Sciré, in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Rome 1990, vol. 38, p. 789;
E.M. dal Pozzolo, "La bottega di Tiziano: sistema solare e buco nero," in Studi Tizianeschi 4 (2006), p. 85;
E.M. dal Pozzolo, in Tiziano, L'ultimo atto, L. Puppi (ed.), exhibition catalogue, Milan 2007, pp. 167, 420;
G. Tagliaferro, "Bottega e impresa di famiglia," in Le botteghe di Tiziano, G. Tagliaferro and B. Aikema (eds.), Treviso 2009, pp. 89, 104;
A. Donati, “Le ‘Quattro Stagione’ di Girolamo Dente e il suo ruolo dento e fuori la bottega di Tiziano,” in Venezia e la Puglia nel Cinquecento, atti del convegno di studi, Bitono 25-26 ottobre 2013, Foggia 2015, pp. 45, 50-54, reproduced fig. 1;
R. Moore with P. Kenny, Titian’s Lost Last Supper: A New Workshop Discovery, London 2021, pp. 43-51, reproduced figs. 4.7, 4.10.
G. Scharf, Scharf Sketchbook 48, 1857, p. 70 [London, National Portrait Gallery, inv. no. NPG 7_3_4_2_58_72];
G. Scharf, A Handbook to the Paintings by Ancient Masters in the Art Treasures Exhibition, London 1857, p. 38 (Titian allegory);
H. Detlev, “Girolamo di Tiziano,” in Burlington Magazine 65, no. 377 (August 1934), pp. 84, 89, reproduced fig. A;
J. Zarnowski, “L’atelier de Titien, Girolamo di Tiziano,” in Dawna Sztuka 1, no. 2 (1938), pp. 113-121, reproduced figs. 1-3;
“Girolamo di Tiziano,” in American Journal of Archaeology 42, no. 3 (July-September 1938), p. 398;
Possibly P. della Pergola, "Gli inventari Aldobrandini: l'Inventario del 1682," in Arte Antica e Moderna 6 (1963), p. 69, no. 222;
R. Fisher, “Titian’s Assistants During the Later Years,” PhD Thesis, Harvard University, 1958 (1977), pp. 33-34, 38, 41, reproduced fig. 22;
Possibly G. Agostini, in Tiziano nelle Gallerie fiorentine, Florence 1978, p. 164, no. 43;
G. Fossaluzza, "Per Ludovico Fiumicelli, Giovan Pietro Meloni e Girolamo Denti," in Arte Veneta 36 (1982), pp. 140-141;
M. Lucco, "Il Cinquecento, Parte prima e seconda," in Le pitture del Santo di Padova, C. Semenzato (ed.), Vicenza 1984, vol. 1, pp. 140-141;
S. Claut, "All'ombra di Tiziano, Contributo per Girolamo Denti," in Antichità Viva 25, nos. 5-6 (1986), pp. 16-17, reproduced fig. 1;
G.N. Sciré, in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Rome 1990, vol. 38, p. 789;
E.M. dal Pozzolo, "La bottega di Tiziano: sistema solare e buco nero," in Studi Tizianeschi 4 (2006), p. 85;
E.M. dal Pozzolo, in Tiziano, L'ultimo atto, L. Puppi (ed.), exhibition catalogue, Milan 2007, pp. 167, 420;
G. Tagliaferro, "Bottega e impresa di famiglia," in Le botteghe di Tiziano, G. Tagliaferro and B. Aikema (eds.), Treviso 2009, pp. 89, 104;
A. Donati, “Le ‘Quattro Stagione’ di Girolamo Dente e il suo ruolo dento e fuori la bottega di Tiziano,” in Venezia e la Puglia nel Cinquecento, atti del convegno di studi, Bitono 25-26 ottobre 2013, Foggia 2015, pp. 45, 50-54, reproduced fig. 1;
R. Moore with P. Kenny, Titian’s Lost Last Supper: A New Workshop Discovery, London 2021, pp. 43-51, reproduced figs. 4.7, 4.10.