Jacopo Robusti, called Jacopo Tintoretto

Private collection, England;
With Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, by 1974.

P. Rossi, "Osservazioni sui ritratti di Jacopo Tintoretto," Arte Veneta, XXIII, 1969, pp. 72, 83, n. 9, reproduced in black and white p. 74, fig. 81;
P. Rossi, Jacopo Tintoretto, I Ritratti, Venice 1974-1976, p. 127, reproduced in black and white fig. 135 (as circa 1566);
Jacopo Tintoretto Portraits, exhibition catalogue, Milan 1994, p. XI–XII, p. XIII, n. 26, reproduced in black and white p. IX (as circa 1566).

The following condition report has been provided by Simon Parkes of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc. 502 East 74th St. New York, NY 212-734-3920, simonparkes@msn.com, an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's. This work could be hung in its current state if the softened varnish were freshened. There may be a thin layer of surface dirt that could be removed, but the work otherwise seems to be clean. It has been well retouched, and none of the retouches are visible to the naked eye. There are restorations in the background across the top. The left side of the background shows fewer retouches, with only retouching in the background against the collar. There is a line of restoration beginning in the center of the top edge running diagonally into the lower right corner. In the face, there are a few retouches in the upper forehead and in the cheek on the right, and a few spots in the bridge of the nose.
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In Rossi's article of 1969, in which she first published the portrait, she gives it a dating of about 1565–70 and places it close in date and treatment to Tintoretto's Portrait of Jacopo Sansovino at the Uffizi, Florence.