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Portrait of a Girl ('Titian's Daughter') c.1670-1700
Oil on canvas | 126.0 x 93.8 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 404013
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Three-quarter-length, standing, facing half to left, the young girl is wearing a purple dress over white chemise, with a rose at her breast and a small crown of flowers on her blond hair. She holds a cat in her hands. There is a column-base on a high pedestal at the right and a landscape at the left. This is a seventeenth-century English copy of a sixteenth-century painting (now destroyed) that was at Petworth until 1927. The original work was smaller, with a plain black background, and is thought to have been by Titian. The model may be Titian’s daughter, Lavinia, but this is unlikely given that her costume is that of a courtesan. The landscape background in this copy suggests that it is by an assistant or follower of Peter Lely.
Provenance
This is the 'Persian Bride' by Titian first recorded in the Queen's Private Chamber at St James's Palace in 1688 (no 1226); in the Great Bedchamber at Kensington in 1700 and a Closet (given various names) at Windsor Castle in 1710, 1720 and 1750, when it is simply called 'woman in her hands a mole'. In the Windsor Castle inventories of 1776 and 1792 the mole becomes a kitten.
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
126.0 x 93.8 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
140.1 x 108.2 x 6.3 cm (frame, external)
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Alternative title(s)
Lavinia di Gregorio Vecellio, previously identified as
Titian's daughter, previously entitled