Current knowledge
© Photographic Archive Museo Nacional del Prado 417
Titian
The Allocution of the Marquis del Vasto [Alfonso D'Avalos] to his Troops
Current measurements:
223cm x 165cm
Date:
1540-41
Titian’s august depiction of a soldierly oration occupied the focal point of this first room, flanked by its fellow Mantua pictures, the Entombment of Christ and Supper at Emmaus. Along with no. 10 in this room The Allegory, it is one of two paintings in the collection historically associated with the warrior Alfonso d’Avalos, the Marquis of Vasto.
Van der Doort 1639
Titian
Marquis of Vangona, said by some to be Marquis of Vasto, standing with his page by him making an oration to his soldiers, 4 life-size, full-length figures and behind them a whole army seen far off
Sale Inventory c.1649-51
Walpole Society reference (1972):