id: 134620 accession number: 1957.150 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1957.150 updated: 2023-11-29 21:33:50.063000 Adoration of the Magi, 1500s. Titian (Italian, c. 1488–1576), and Workshop. Oil on canvas; framed: 168 x 250 x 14 cm (66 1/8 x 98 7/16 x 5 1/2 in.); unframed: 134.5 x 217 cm (52 15/16 x 85 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1957.150 title: Adoration of the Magi title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1500s creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1599 current location: creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 16th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Titian (Italian, c. 1488–1576) - artist Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian, was the greatest Italian painter of 16th-century Venice, known for his expressive brushwork, brilliant color, and hazy atmospheric effects. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, a small town on the Venetian side of the Alps around 1490. He moved to Venice when he was ten years old, and started his artistic training under the mosaicist Sebastiano Zuccato. He later joined Gentile's and Giovanni's Bellini workshops, and started a collaboration with the painter Giorgione on the frescoes of the Fondaco dei tedeschi in 1508. Titian's "Assumption of the Virgin" (1516-1518) for the church's high altar became the masterwork that helped establish him as one of the leading painters in the Venetian area. Over his career, Titian created paintings for prestigious commissioners, such as Pope Paul III, king Philip II of Spain, and Charles V. In his later years, Titian mainly focused on religious and mythological subjects. he died of plague on August 27, 1576 in Venice. Titian's artistic oeuvre had a great impact on later generations of painters, such as Rembrandt, Diego Velàzquez, Anton van Dyck and Peter Paul Rubens. * Workshop - artist --- measurements: Framed: 168 x 250 x 14 cm (66 1/8 x 98 7/16 x 5 1/2 in.); Unframed: 134.5 x 217 cm (52 15/16 x 85 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Stories From Storage opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00 Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Walsh Porter (died 1810), upon his death, held in trust by the estate date: footnotes: citations: Estate of Walsh Porter (unsold, Christie's, London, April 14, 1810, no. 38; unsold, Christie's, London, June 21, 1811, no. 40; sold, Christie's, London, May 6, 1826, no. 7) date: footnotes: citations: Samuel Rogers (sold, Christie's, London, May 2, 1856, no. 700, to Mr. Ripp); date: footnotes: citations: Hugh A. J. Munro of Novar (1797-1864), upon his death, held in trust by the estate date: footnotes: citations: Estate of Hugh A. J. Munro of Novar, (unsold, Christie's, London, May 18, 1867, no. 183; sold, Christie's, London, June 1, 1878, no. 121, to C. Butler) date: footnotes: citations: Butler Johnstone, 1881 date: footnotes: citations: William Graham (1817-1885), upon his death, held in trust by the estate date: footnotes: citations: Estate of William Graham (sold, Christie's, London, April 10, 1886, no. 472) date: footnotes: citations: J. Stewart Hodgson (sold, Christie's, London, June 3, 1893, no. 31) date: footnotes: citations: Ralph Brocklebank (sale: Christie's, London, July 7, 1922, no. 112) date: footnotes: citations: Julius Bohler, Munich date: footnotes: citations: Durlacher Brothers, London and New York date: footnotes: citations: Arthur Sachs [1880-1975] sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1928-1957 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1957- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Waagen, Gustav Friedrich, Elizabeth Eastlake, and Algernon Graves. Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated Mss., &C. &C. London, United Kingdom: J. Murray, 1854. page number: Reproduced: p. 267 url: Munro, H. A. J. A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, Water-Colour Drawings, Drawings, and Prints, in the Collection of the Late Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro, Esq., of Novar : At the Time of His Death Deposited in His House, No. 6 Hamilton Place, London : With Some Additional Paintings at Novar. London: publisher not identified, 1865. page number: Reproduced: p. 15, no. 23 url: Crowe, J. A., and G. B. Cavalcaselle. The Life and Times of Titian: With Some Account of His Family. London, United Kingdom: Murray, 1881. page number: Mentioned: p. 308-309, 519-520 url: Redford, George. Art Sales. A History of Sales of Pictures and Other Works of Art. With Notices of the Collections Sold, Names of Owners, Titles of Pictures, Prices and Purchasers, Arranged Under the Artists of the Different Schools in Order of Date. Including the Purchases and Prices of Pictures for the National Gallery. London, United Kingdom: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., Printers, the "Whitefriars" Press, 1888. page number: Reproduced: p. 104, vol. I url: Brocklebank, Ralph, and Robert Radcliffe Carter. Pictures & Engravings at Haughton Hall, Tarporley, in the Possession of Ralph Brocklebank. London, United Kingdom: G. Allen, 1904. page number: Reproduced: p. 4, no. 2 url: Graves, Algernon. Art Sales from Early in the Eighteenth Century to Early in the Twentieth Century (Mostly Old Master and Early English Pictures). London, United Kingdom: A. Graves, 1918. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 211-213, vol. III url: Bryson Burroughs, "Titian's Adoration of the Kings': An Important Loan" Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, XXV (1930): 268-271. page number: Mentioned: p. 268-271; Reproduced: p. 269 url: Venturi, Lionello. Pitture italiane in America. Milano, Italy: U. Hoepli, 1931. page number: Reproduced: p. 386, CCCLXXXVI. url: Suida, Wilhelm. Tizian. Zürich-Leipzig: Orell Füssli, 1933. page number: Mentioned: p. 137-138, 174, 188 url: Venturi, Lionello. Italian Paintings in America. New York, NY: E. Wyhe, 1933. page number: Reproduced: no. 526, url: Howe, Thomas C. Jr., "The Arthur Sachs Collection," Bulletin o the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, IV, no. 7 (1946):59-60. page number: Mentioned: p. 59; Reproduced: p. 60 url: Howe, Thomas C, Jr., "Two Paintings by Titian," Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, V (September 1947): 34-49. page number: Mentioned: p. 34-49; Reproduced: p. 37 url: Tietze, Hans, and Titian. Titian, the Paintings and Drawings. London, United Kingdom: Phaidon Press, 1950. page number: Reproduced: p. 49 url: Galbiati, Giovanni. Itinerario per il visitatore della Biblioteca ambrosiana: della Pinacoteca e dei monumenti annessi. Milano, Italy: U. Hoepli, 1951. page number: Reproduced: p. 189 url: Berenson, Bernard. 1957. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places. Venetian School. New York, NY: Phaidon Publishers; distributed by Garden City Books. page number: Reproduced: p. 184 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 415 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n76 Cleveland Museum of Art, and William Mathewson Milliken. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York, NY: H.N. Abrams, 1958. page number: Reproduced: p. 35 url: Francis, Henry S. Francis. "Titian: The Adoration of the Magi," The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art XLVII, no. 3 (March 1960):59-63. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 59-63, fig. 1-3 url: Valcanover, Francesco. Tutta la pittura di Tiziano. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli, 1960. page number: Reproduced: p. 70, pl. 171 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 94 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n118 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 94 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n118 Wethey, Harold E. The Paintings of Titian. London, United Kingdom: Phaidon, 1969. page number: Mentioned: p. 66-68; Reproduced: pl. 122-123 url: Pallucchini, Rodolfo. Tiziano. Firenze, Italy: G.C. Sansoni, 1969. page number: Mentioned: p. 165, 308, vol. I: Reproduced: fig. 444, 447, vol. II url: Valcanover, Francesco. L'opera Completa Di Tiziano. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 129, no. 424 url: Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. page number: Mentioned: p. 202, 273, 574 url: Morris, Edward. American Artists in Europe, 1800-1900: [Catalogue of] an Exhibition to Celebrate the Bicentenary of American Independence [Held at the] Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 14 November-2 January 1976-7. Liverpool], United Kingdom: Merseyside County Council, 1976. page number: Reproduced: p. 8 url: Palazzo reale di Milano. Omaggio a Tiziano: la cultura artistica milanese nell'età di Carlo V, Milano, Palazzo Reale, 27 aprile-20 luglio 1977. Milano: Electa, 1977. page number: Reproduced: p. 39 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 109 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n129 National Gallery of Scotland, and Hugh Brigstocke. Italian and Spanish Paintings in the National Gallery of Scotland. Edinburgh, Scotland: The Gallery, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 13, no. 15 url: Walther, Angelo, and Titian. Tizian. Leipzig, Germany: E.A. Seemann, 1978. page number: Mentioned: p. 53,55; Reproduced: p. 190, pl. 76 url: Lipman, Jean, and Richard Marshall. Art About Art. New York, NY: Dutton, 1978. page number: Mentioned: p. 8; Reproduced: p. 9 url: Tiziano e Venezia: convegno internazionale di studi, Venezia, 1976. 370 illustrazioni in nero e 16 a colori. Vicenza: N. Pozza, 1980. page number: Reproduced: p. 234 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 436-441; Reproduced: p. 437 url: Museo del Prado, and Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. De Tiziano a Bassano: maestros venecianos del Museo del Prado. Barcelona, Spain: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, 1997. page number: Reproduced: p. 128 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.150/1957.150_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.150/1957.150_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.150/1957.150_full.tif