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| Title | Presentation of the Virgin | |
| Alternative Title | Benediction of St Anne | |
| Collection | Holburne Museum of Art, Bath | |
| Artist | After Titian (Italian painter and draftsman, ca. 1488-1576) Attributed to British School |
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| Date Earliest | possibly about 1700 | |
| Date Latest | possibly about 1850 | |
| Description | This rather enigmatic scene is taken from the central lower section of Titian's famous Presentation of the Virgin (1534-39; Accademia, Venice). The original tells the story from The Golden Legend of how the three-year-old Mary ascended the steps of the Temple in Jerusalem to begin her service there until her betrothal to Joseph. She is watched by a crowd of figures, some symbolical, some portraits. The little girl with her hand on the steps, for example, is said to be Titian's own daughter. This partial copy does not include the figure of the Virgin herself higher up the stairs, or the priests waiting to welcome her. | |
| Current Accession Number | A250 | |
| Subject | religion (Presentation of the Virgin) | |
| Measurements | 54.0 x 71.2 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on panel | |
| Acquisition Details | Bequeathed by Miss Mary Anne Barbara Holburne 1882. | |
| Provenance | Sir Thomas William Holburne, by 1867-74; by descent to Mary Anne Barbara Holburne (1802-1882), 1874. | |
| Notes | Labels: Thomas William Holburne label on back: 'The Lower Part of Titians / great picture of the presentation / [...] Folio [?]'. Previous attributions: Catalogue of the Pictures and Library, Engravings, Etchings and Miniatures, Belonging to Sir Thomas William Holburne, Bart., Bath, 1867, cat. no. 136: ‘Titian - Lower part of the Picture of the Benediction of St. Anna, at Venice' (front drawing room); Catalogue of the Holburne of Menstrie Art Museum by W.Chaffers, London, 1887, cat. no. 1455: 'Titian'; F. Möckler, Holburne of Menstrie Art Museum, Bath, 1902, cat. no. 66: 'after Titian'; hand written register of paintings, watercolours and miniatures, giving inventory numbers with ‘A' prefix still in use, by G. Holden, Curator 1917-1926, compiled shortly after move to Sydney Hotel, cat. no. 250: 'after Titian'; AMCSW, 1994: eighteenth- / nineteenth-century. |
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| Rights Owner | © The Holburne Museum of Art, Bath | |
| Author | Amina Wright | |