[Breeze] Titian: Viorante
Date: 1515 -1518
Style: Highly Renaissance
Genre: Portrait
Media: Oil, canvas
Current collection: Private collection of the Museum of History, Vienna, Austria
Dimensions: 51 x 65.5 cm
Reading:
Viorant is an oil painting by Titian dating back to around 1515 and is now preserved in the Historical Museum in Vienna.
The work is a Venetian collection by Bartolomeo della Nave, and in 1636 it was sold to the Duke of Hamilton, who brought it to London. In 1659 it was acquired by Grand Duke Leopold William of Austria, whose collection later became part of the current museum.
The title refers to Violet, the daughter of the painter Parma Sr. (the painting was assigned to her a long time ago), but there is no evidence for this. An etched david tanniers jr. shows a painting with a larger dimension, although representatives of the Grand Duke Gallery of the same artist depict it in the same current dimensions. The painting must have been a popular painting during the Grand Duke's cabinet, as depicted in his gallery paintings.
