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AFTER TIZIANO VECELLIO, CALLED TITIAN | PORTRAIT OF POPE PAUL III (1468-1549), THREE-QUARTER-LENGTH, SEATED
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The Property of the Downside Abbey General Trust
AFTER TIZIANO VECELLIO, CALLED TITIAN
PORTRAIT OF POPE PAUL III (1468-1549), THREE-QUARTER-LENGTH, SEATED
inscribed on the reverse: Presented/ to/ Downside School/ Jany 1926/ by/ Alfred Jones/ of Bath/ Pope Julius II (later annotated in pencil: Paul III 1543)/ (after)/ Raphiel/ by/ J.M. Ward, R.A.
oil on canvas
unframed: 108.2 x 84 cm.; 42½ x 33 in.
framed: 132.5 x 107 cm.; 52⅛ x 42⅛ in.
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With Alfred Jones, Bath, by whom presented to Downside Abbey in January 1926.
A 19th-century copy after Titian's portrait of Paul III without Cap, at the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples (inv. no. 130).1 Titian's original portrait proved to be extremely popular: although he does not mention this particular canvas, Harold Wethey documents approximately 17 other copies in his catalogue raisonné.
1 H. Wethey, The paintings of Titian, London 1971, vol. II, pp. 122-24, cat. no. 72, reproduced plates 115-17.