Current knowledge
Yale University Art Gallery 1959.15.18
Workshop of Titian
Gerardo Mercator
Current measurements:
107cm x 93.4cm
Date:
c.1550
Charles I bought this work from his miniature painter, Peter Oliver, from whom he commissioned various “limning” copies (in miniature) after many of the King’s most cherished Italian Renaissance paintings - the copies appear in Van der Doort’s inventory of the Cabinet Room.
Today, the painting’s attribution is the subject of the debate; some think it by the workshop of Titian, others by another Venetian artist Gian Paolo Pace who was much influenced by the older master.
Van der Doort 1639
Titian
Man, in a black habit with his right elbow and a globe both on a table, life-size, half-length
Sale Inventory c.1649-51
Walpole Society reference (1972):