Doge Andrea Gritti (1455-1538)

Titian’s fierce portrait of Doge Andrea Gritti bears no further provenance information in the inventory than that it was bought by Charles I.

Van der Doort c.1639

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Doge Andrea Gritti with his right hand holding his robes, life-size, full-length

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 21, № 5
Measurements (Van der Doort): 
4ft 4in x 3ft 4in (132.1 x 101.6cm)
Frame: 
black wooden gilded frame
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited: 
bought
Hang notes: 
above door
Room description extended: 
Also called the Square Table Room
Original Manuscript page number: 
MS. Ash. 1514, f. 28
Identification certainty: 
Identified
Sale Inventory c.1649-51

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