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Lot 28
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Venetian School Sultana or Queen or Persia 17th century

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • framed: 150cm. by 120cm.; 4ft. 11in., 3ft. 11¼in.
portrait of a courtesan, three quarter length, in Turkish dress
Oil on canvas

Catalogue Note

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Wethey, Titian, vol. II, 1971, p. 205 L-28

This painting is loosely based uponTitian's Sultana or Queen of Persia and was much in vogue as a genre in 17th century Venice. With her Turkish headdress and exotic costume, she has come to represent a fantasy image of an Eastern woman viewed through Westerners' eyes. The rose she holds between her breasts may be a play on words identifying her as Rossa or Rosselana, the favourite wife of Sultan Suleiman Ist.