Titian and His Mistress (Allegory on Life and Death)
Anthony van Dyck, Flemish, 1599 - 1641
after Titian, Italian, about 1488 - 1576
not dated
Etching on laid paper
Plate: 11 5/8 × 9 1/8 in. (29.5 × 23.2 cm)
Sheet: 13 1/2 × 10 1/4 in. (34.3 × 26 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift in memory of Mrs. Harvey Fisk by her children
PR.974.397
Geography
Place Made: Belgium, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, lower center: Ecco il belverder! / o che felice sorte! / Che la fruttifera frutto in ventre prote. / Ma ch'ella porte, o me! vita et morte piano / Demonstra l'arte del magno Titiano./ Al molot iullstre, magnifico et offeruandis.mo Sir.r il SIG.R LUCA VAN UFFEL,in segno d'affectione et inclinatione/amoreuole, como Patrone et singularis.mo amico suo dedicato il vero ritratto del unico Titiano Ant. van Dyck; lower left: Titian Inventor Cu Privileo Regis; lower right: A. Boninfant excu.
Course History
FRIT 34, Sex and Gender in the Italian Renaissance, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2015
ITAL 7, Women in Renaissance Venice, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2015
Exhibition History
17th and 18th Century Prints, Art 46 Northern Baroque, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 13-April 23, 1978.
The Art of Spectatorship: A History of Viewing from the Renaissance to the Present Day, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 19-April 6, 2008.
Provenance
Elizabeth Richmond Fisk (1885-1966) [Mrs. Harvey Edward Fisk], Woodstock, Vermont; to her children, Elizabeth Fisk Tyler (1912-1978), Margaretta Fisk Paine (1915-1952); Ursula Fisk Clough (1917-1989), and Anne Fisk Howe (1921-2001), 1966; given to present collection, 1974.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hollstein, vol. VI, no. 21.
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