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JACOPO TINTORETTO Venice1519-1594, attribited to Porträtt av påvligt sändebud, möjligen den venetianske generalen Jacopo Soranzano d.y. (1518-1587) Indistinctly signed. Oil on canvas. 100 x 83 cm EXPERTISE: Cabinet Turquin, Stéphane Pinta, Paris PROVENANCE Carl Moll (1861-1945), painter of the Vienna Secession, Vienna; Cassier und Helbing, Berlin, 20 mars 1917, including a foreword by Georg Gronau, catalogue no. 30, presented as "Tintoretto" Schloss Paalen, Sagan (probably Gustaf Robert Paalen, at Schloss St. Rochusberg, (Zagán, Silesia) Ivar Kreuger, Stockholm Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, 14-16 September 1932, sold as "Jacobo Robusti Tintoretto", catalogue no. 85, illustrated full page, page 32, hammered price 10.000 SEK Forester David Hultmark EXHIBITED Nationalmuseum, Stockholm 1944 LITERATURE Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm, April 1944, illustrated with text: "En ny Tintoretto på Nationalmuseum" We are grateful to Dr. Jan Bridgeman for his assistance in cataloguing this lot. The sitter is possibly the same Venetian commander portrayed by an artist from the circle of Tintoretto at the Art Institute of Chicago (illustrated in P. Rossi, Jacopo Tintoretto I ritratti, Venice, 1974, pp. 140-1, fig. 278). The Chicago portrait is inscribed 'Antonivs. Zantani. Comes. et. Eqves.', an inscription which refers to the famous humanist Antonio Zantani, a great connoisseur of coins and medals. However, it is now believed that the inscription was added at a later date, partly because the costume of the sitter, which is similar to that in the present picture, is not typical for the portrait of a humanist. The costume is in fact related to that described and illustrated by Cesare Vecellio for a 'Generale di Venezia in tempo di guerra' (Degli habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo, Venice, 1590, I, p. 103; see also G. Grevenbroch, Gli abiti dei Veneziani di quasi ogni eta con diligenza raccolti e dipinti nel secolo XVIII, Venice, 1981, p. 66, 'Capitano Generale'), including a cloth-of-gold paludamento fastened with four large buttons, derived from the military cloak of Roman officers. It has also been noted that the sitter resembles a gentleman identified as Jacopo Soranzo in a family portrait in the Castello Sforzesco, Milan. Soranzo was one of the commanders in the War of Cyprus (1570-1573), when Venice fought alongside the Holy League, a coalition of Christian states under the auspices of the Pope, against the Ottoman Empire. This interpretation may be supported by the Papal insignia on the paludamento. The two stoles born by the sitter are an unusual feature, as a stole, usually an indication of rank or honour, was not usually worn with a paludamento, and more than one worn at a time is not recorded elsewhere. Changes Konstnär/ artist: Robusti Domenico Tintoretto 1560-1635, tillskriven