Federico, Prince of Urbino, at the Age of Two Years

1607

Alessandro Vitali Italian, 1580-1630

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

Federico, Prince of Urbino, at the Age of Two Years

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Title Federico, Prince of Urbino, at the Age of Two Years

Artwork Date 1607

Artist Alessandro Vitali

Life Dates 1580-1630

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 36 15/16 × 25 inches (93.8 × 63.5 cm) Framed: 48 7/8 × 37 1/16 × 4 inches (124.1 × 94.1 × 10.2 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Robert H. Tannahill

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 44.216

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Inscriptions Inscribed, across top: FEDERICO.PRINC[E]. D. VRB[O]. BI. ETA`. D. ANNI. DOI.1607

Provenance

Duke Francesco Maria II della Rovere (Urbino, Italy);
mid-18th century, purchased by Richard Dalton for the Earl Grosvenor, probably Richard, first Earl Grosvenor [1731-1802] (England);
June 27, 1807, 2nd Earl Grosvenor [Coxe] sale (London, England) lots 58 and 59;
May 1808, sale held by European Museum (London, England) lots 410 and 411;
February 17, 1809, sold by (Christie's, London, England) European museum sale, lots 51 and 54;
1809, purchased by J.L. Tuffen;
by 1908, Dan Fellows Platt (Englewood, New Jersey);
early 1940s, Ferargil, Inc. (New York, New York, USA);
1943, M. Knoedler & Co. (New York, New York, USA);
Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA);
1944-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Platt, D.F. Through Italy with Car and Camera. New York, 1908, p. 224 (ill.).

Perkins, F.M. "Dipiniti italiani nella raccolta Platt." Rassegna D'Arte 11, no. 1 (January 1911): pp. 1-6, p. 6 (ill.). [as by Vitali]

Loan Exhibition of the Arts of the Italian Renaissance. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, June 1923, cat. 36, p. 12.

Burroughs, B. "Loan Exhibition of the Arts of the Italian Renaissance: Paintings." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 18 (1923): pp. 107-10, p. 109.

Comstock, H. "Two Baroque Portraits of Federico, Prince of Urbino." Connoisseur 94 (April 1935): pp. 224-226 (ill.).

Valentiner, W.R. "Two Child Portraits by Federico Barocci." Bulletin of the DIA 24 (1944-45): pp. 30-35.

Valentiner, W.R. "The Last Prince of Urbino." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 27 (January 1945): pp. 22-38.

Richardson, E.P. Masterpieces of Painting and Sculpture. Detroit, 1949, p. 76, (ill.).

Olsen, H. Federico Barocci: A Critical Study in Italian Cinquecento Painting. Uppsala, 1955, p. 163, no. 62d

Olsen, H. Federico Barocci. Copenhagen, 1962, p. 228-229, no. 79D. [as studio of Barocci, probably Alessandro Vitali.]

Inaugural Exhibition. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Art. St. Petersburg, 1965, cat. 61 (ill.).

The Italian Heritage. Exh. cat., Wildenstein & Co. New York, 1967, cat. 33 (ill.).

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 15.

Francioni, S. "Iconografia del gioco nel cinquecento" Passare il tempo; la letteratura del gioco e dell'intrattenimento dal XII al XVI secolo. Rome, 1993, pp. 251-268, p. 263

The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner. New York, 1996, vol. 3, p. 253.

Gli ultimi Della Rovere: il crepuscolo del ducato di Urbino. Exh. cat., Galleria nazionale delle Marche. Urbino, 2000, p. 44.

Bandes, Susan J. Pursuits and Pleasures: Baroque Paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Dennos Museum Center, Kalamazoo Art Museum, Kresge Art Museum, Muskegon Museum of Art. Battle Creek, 2003, pp. 9, 42, 43 (ill.).

Bissell, R.W., A. Derstine, and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 9, 214-221, cat. no. 69.

Derstine, Andria. "The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, p. 97.

Verstegen, Ian. "I ritratti di Vitali di Federico Ubaldo della Rovere: Ipotesi sulla collaborazione di Barocci." In Sulle orme di Federico Barocci. Tecnique pittoriche e identità culturale. Rome, 2022, pp. 111-117, p. 112 (fig. 2).

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Alessandro Vitali, Federico, Prince of Urbino, at the Age of Two Years, 1607, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill, 44.216.