Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian - The Mater Dolorosa 1485-1576

Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian - The Mater Dolorosa 1485-1576

The Mater Dolorosa 1485-1576
67x56cm oil/panel
Sold for: USD 912 000
Auction house: Christie's, New York
Sale date: 6 April 2006
Seller: Bishop Thomas E. Molloy, Brooklyn, New York
Buyer: Anonymous buyer

This deeply moving painting has, on the few occasions when it has surfaced, been recognised as a variant of Titian's celebrated composition of the subject, most familiar from the two pictures in the Prado.