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Portrait of a Man of the Cornaro Family with a Falcon
Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian (Italian, Venetian, c. 1488–1576)
Title
Portrait of a Man of the Cornaro Family with a Falcon
Artist
Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian (Italian, Venetian, c. 1488–1576)
Date
late 1520s
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
42 3/4 × 38 in. (108.6 × 96.5 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Museum purchase, 1942.3. Dedicated in 2007 in honor of Robert H. Ahmanson
Object Number
1942.3
On View
On view
Provenance
Prince de Carignan Collection Sale, Hôtel de Soissons, Paris, June 18, 1743, lot 42.
Louis Francois de Bourbon, Prince de Conti, by 1777;
His sale, Prince de Conti Collection Sale, Paris, April 8, 1777, lot 92.
Sir Thomas Boring, London, 1810–1850.
Earl of Carlisle, Castle Howard, Yorkshire, England, c. 1811–1895.
Edward F. Milliken (1864–1906), by 1902 [1].
His sale, Christie’s, London, May 23, 1903, lot 78.
Dr. Eduard Simon, Berlin, c. 1903–1921;
With Lord Duveen, Millbank, on joint account with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1922–1927;
Purchased from Duveen and Thomas Agnew & Sons by Alfred W. Erickson, New York, July 15, 1927–1942;
Consigned to Wildenstein & Co., New York, by January 23, 1942;
Purchased from Wildenstein & Co., through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1942.
[1] Offered for sale, Mr. E. F. Milliken’s Private Collection of Valuable Paintings, American Art Association, Mendehlsen Hall, New York, February 14, 1902, lot 26, but failed to sell.
Exhibition History
British Institute, London, 1844, no. 44, as Georgius Cornelius, brother to Catherine, Queen of Cyprus and Jerusalem, lent by Earl of Carlisle.
New Gallery, London, 1894–1895.
Kaiser-Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 1909, no. 148.
Detroit Institute of Arts, 1928.
43 Portraits, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, January 26–February 10, 1937, no. 12.
Masterpieces of Art, New York World’s Fair, April 30, 1939–October 27, 1940.
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, December 1941–January 1942.
40 Masterpieces: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings from American Museums, City Art Museum of St. Louis, October 6–November 10, 1947, no. 39.
Old Masters from Midwestern Museums, Dayton Art Institute, OH, March 5–April 19, 1948.
50th Anniversary Exhibition for the Benefit of St. Faith’s House, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1951.
From the Renaissance, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, February 24–March 23, 1955.
Sports in Art, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, November 4, 1955–November 27, 1955.
Notable Collections at Joslyn, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, November 30, 1956–January 1, 1957.
Titian, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, With a Group of Sixteenth-Century Venetian Drawings, Art Gallery of Toronto, February 12–March 16, 1960.
Masterpieces: A Memorial Exhibition for Adele R. Levy, Wildenstein & Co., New York, April 6–May 7, 1961, no. 6.
Masterpieces of Art, Seattle World’s Fair, April 21–September 4, 1962.
The Italian Heritage: An Exhibition to Benefit the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, Wildenstein & Co., New York, May 17–August 29, 1967, no. 21.
In New Context: Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, January–March 31, 1973.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, March 24–September 2008.
Joslyn Treasures: Well-Traveled and Rarely Seen, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, June 3–August 28, 2011.
Titian to Monet: European Paintings from Joslyn Art Museum, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, October 14, 2022–January 8, 2023; Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from Joslyn Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, February 22–May 28, 2023.
Published References
Catalogue des Tableau du Cabinet de feu S.A.S. Monseigneur le Prince de Carignan (Paris, 1743), 7.
Catalogue d’une rich collection de tableaux qui composent le cabinet de feu Monsigneur le Prince de Conti (Paris, 1777), 32.
Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain: being an account of the chief collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, illuminated mss., &c., vol. 2 (London: John Murray, 1854), 278.
J. A. Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle, Titian: His Life and Times with Some Accounts of His Family, Chiefly from New and Unpublished Records (1881), 2: 18–20.
J. E. Harting, “Falconry: Part 2,” Magazine of Art 19 (1896), 140, 180.
Claude Phillips, The Later Works of Titian (London: Seeley & Co., 1898), 54.
Catalogue of Mr. E. F. Milliken’s Private Collection of Valuable Paintings (New York: American Art Association, 1902), frontispiece, (repro.).
Georg Gronau, Titian (London: Duckworth & Co.; New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904), 81–82.
Charles Ricketts, Titian (London: Methuen & Co.1910), pl. 77, (repro.), as Man with a Hawk.
Victor Basch, Titien (Paris: Librairie Française, 1918), 157.
Oskar Fischel, Tizian des Meisters Gemälde (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1920), pl. 63, (repro.)
Emil Waldemann, Tizian (Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, 1922), 95, (repro.)
Frank E. Washburn Freund, “Paintings by Titian in America,” International Studio and Connoisseur (May 1926), 35ff.
Lionello Venturi, Pitture Italiane in American (Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1931), 380, (repro.).
Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932), 573.
Lionello Venturi, Italian Paintings in America (New York: E. Weyhe, 1933), 3: pl. 513.
Wilhelm Suida, Le Titien (Paris: A. Weber, 1935), 90, 159, 168, pl. 127, as L’Homme au Faucon.
Frank Jewett Mather, Venetian Painters (New York: H. Holt & Co., 1936), 209–285.
Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Italian ed., trans. Emilio Cecchi (Milan, 1936), 573.
43 Portraits, exh. cat. (Hartford, Connecticut: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1937), n.p.
Hans Tietze, Titian, Paintings and Drawings (Vienna: Phaidon, 1937), 336.
Hans Tietze, Masterpieces of European Painting in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1939), pl. 87.
Masterpieces of Art: Exhibition at the New York World's Fair, 1939, Official Souvenir Guide and Picture Book (New York: Art News, 1939), pl. 59.
Art Digest 16, March 1, 1942, 7, (repro.).
Art News 4, March 1–14, 1942, 26.
“A Titian Bought by Joslyn Memorial of Omaha,” New York Times, March 3, 1942, 28.
Connoisseur 109 (July 1942): 146, (repro.).
Dwight Kirsch, “Exhibiting and Collecting Art in the Midwest,” Magazine of Art (Fall 1946).
40 Masterpieces: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings from American Museums, exh. cat. (St. Louis: City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1947), 92–93, (repro.), as The Man with the Falcon.
Old Masters from Midwestern Museums, exh. cat. (Dayton, Ohio: Dayton Art Institute, 1948), 2, (repro.), as The Man with the Falcon.
Robert Warnock and George K. Andersen, The World in Literature (Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman & Co., 1950).
“Public Favorites,” Time Magazine, vol. 62, no. 3, July 20, 1953, 67, (repro.).
Bernard Berenson, Venetian Painting of the Renaissance (London: Phaidon, 1957), pl. 961.
Eloise Spaeth, American Art Museums and Galleries (New York: Harper & Bros., 1960).
Francesco Valcanover, All of the Paintings of Titian, Part 2: 1488–1545, trans. Sylvia J. Tomalin (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1960), 83, pl. 118A, (repro.), as Man with a Falcon.
“Feathered Death,” MD, vol. 4, no. 10, (October 1960): 146, (repro.).
“Titian Painting from Joslyn to be Shown at Seattle Fair,” Omaha World-Herald, April 11, 1961.
Philip Gurney, “Titian is Responsible for ‘Age of Fine Arts,’” Dundee and West Omaha Sun, March 23, 1961, 34, (repro.).
Dorothy Burgess, “Joslyn Masterpieces to World’s Fair Exhibit,” Dundee and West Omaha Sun, March 24, 1962, 10A, (repro.).
Bil Gilber, “About: Falcons,” New York Times Magazine, December 8, 1963, 45.
Madge Garland, An Aggregate of Animals (London: Hutchinsons, 1964).
Philip Gurney, “Priceless Titian Best in U.S.,” Omaha World-Herald, March 14, 1965, 30.
Great Art Treasures in America’s Smaller Museums (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1967), 110, (repro.).
The Italian Heritage: An Exhibition to Benefit the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, exh., cat. (New York: Wildenstein & Co. 1967) n.p., no. 21, (repro.), as Portrait of a Man with a Falcon.
Fred Licht, “For Florence, From Florence,” Art News, May 1967.
Leonard Thiessen, “Joslyn Sends Titian on a Rescue Mission,” Omaha World-Herald, April 1967.
“Reunion of Principessas,” Art, August 11, 1967, 52.
“Joslyn Art Comes Homes for Gala Ball,” Dundee and West Omaha Sun, March 25, 1968, 15A.
Harold E. Wethey, The Paintings of Titian, vol. 2, The Portraits (London: Phaidon, 1969), 96–97, no. 28, pl. 38, as Falconer (Gentleman with a Falcon).
Algernon Graves, Arts Sales from Early in the Eighteenth Century to Early in the Twentieth Century (Mostly Old Master and Early English Pictures), vol. 3, Reynolds to Z (New York: Burt Franklin, 1970), 213.
George Laycock, “The Falconer’s Paradox,” Audubon Magazine, vol. 73, no. 5, September 1971, 64, (repro.).
“What’s Happening in the Omaha Area,” Omaha World-Herald, March 21, 1971, 5.
Sigmund A. Lavine, Wonders of the Hawk World (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1972), 17, (repro.).
Loredana Olivato, “Storia di un’avventura edilizia a Venezia fra il Seicento e il Settecento: Palazzo Cornaro della Regina,” Antichità Viva, vol. 12, no. 3 (1973): 28, (repro.).
Illustrated Guide to the Treasures of America (Pleasantville, New York: Readers Digest Association, 1974), 370, (repro.).
John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America, a Comprehensive Guide to Locating and Enjoying over 300 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists (New York: Abbeville Press, 1979), 274, (repro.).
Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 38–40, (repro.), as Giorgio Cornaro with a Falcon.
Graham W. J. Beal et. al., Fifty Favorites from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1994), 18–19, (repro.).
Filipp Pederocco, Titian (New York: Rizzoli, 2000), 144, no. 81, (repro.), as Portrait of a Man with a Hawk.
Michel Hochmann, “Les collections des familles papalistes à Venise et à Rome du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle,” in Geografia del Collezionismo. Italia e Francia tra il XVI e il XVIII Secoli, ed.
Olivier Bonfait et al. (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 2001), 210–11, (repro.).
Tracy E. Cooper, Palladio’s Venice: Architecture and Society in a Renaissance Republic (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), 30, (repro.), as Corner with a Falcon.
Diane Stickney, “Titian: Restoration Brings Portrait Out of Shadows,” Omaha World-Herald, September 21, 2008, 1–2, (repro.).
Matthew Knox Averett, “Becoming Giorgio Cornaro: Titian's ‘Portrait of a Man with a Falcon,’” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 74, no.4 (2011): 559–68, (repro.).
Maria H. Loh, Titian’s Touch: Art, Magic, and Philosophy (London: Reaktion Books, 2019), 166, (repro.).
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 22, 58–61, (repro.).
