Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian - Portrait of a cleric, bust-length, in a blue coat and black hat 1485-1576
Portrait of a cleric, bust-length, in a blue coat and black hat 1485-1576
43x33cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 1.21 million
Auction house: Christie's, London
Sale date: 2 July 2013
Seller: Private Collection
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
The picture is clearly a relatively late work, many scholars placing it in the later 1550s, a date which is consistent with the artist's use of a woven canvas of diagonal weave, although Giorgio Tagliaferro considers it could be of the previous decade.