Portrait of a Lady and Her Daughter
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.The complicated history of this painting illustrates a possible outcome when a work is left unfinished in a great artist’s studio. The identity of the woman and her daughter, a rare pairing in Venetian painting of the time, is unknown, although it may be that the two were part of Titian’s own family. Following Titian’s death, the painting was altered by someone in the studio to depict Tobias and the archangel Raphael, a transformation that diminished the quality of the work (see image); only in in the second half of the twentieth century was the underlying tender but incomplete image of the mother and child revealed.
Artwork Details
- Title: Portrait of a Lady and Her Daughter
- Artist: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian, Pieve di Cadore ca. 1485/90?–1576 Venice)
- Date: ca. 1550
- Geography: Country of Origin Italy
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 34 3/4 × 31 3/4 in. (88.3 × 80.6 cm)
Frame: 52 × 48 × 3 in. (132.1 × 121.9 × 7.6 cm) - Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Cobbe Collection, Hatchlands Park
- Rights and Reproduction: © Alec Cobbe
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art