Current knowledge
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Titian and workshop
Jacopo Pesaro Being Presented by Pope Alexander VI to St Peter
Current measurements:
145cm x 183cm
Date:
c.1506-11
Titian’s stately painting shows Bishop Jacopo Pesaro presented by Pope Alexander VI to St Peter.
Commissioned by the Bishop to celebrate Venice’s naval victory over the Ottoman Turks, it was given to Charles I by the Earl of Arundel along with painting no. 1 in this room (Titian’s Tarquin and Lucretia). Interestingly, Van der Doort recorded it as “said to be Titian” rather than by the master outright; it is now considered one of his earliest works.
Van der Doort 1639
Said to be Titian
Pope prefers the General of his Navy to St Peter, three slightly less than life-size figures, full-length
Sale Inventory c.1649-51
Walpole Society reference (1972):