Doge Antonio Priuli c.1600-25
Oil on canvas | 165.2 x 125.1 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 407153
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Antonio Priuli was Doge from 1618 to 1623. Here he is shown in three-quarter-length, standing, facing to to the left. He wears gold patterned Ducal robes with an ermine cape and a gold hat. There is a column at the left and a curtain at the right. The Doge is pointing to the left with his right hand and holding a folded letter in his left hand; it is possible that the letters on the paper were once decipherable.
This was one of four portraits of Doges acquired by Sir Henry Wotton during his tenure as ambassador in Venice. The paintings were hung in Wotton's dining room at Eton College and bequeathed to Charles I in 1637, Wotton's will describes: 'four pictures at large of those Dukes of Venice, in whose time I was there employed with their names written on the back side, which hang in my ordinary Dining-room, done after the life by Eduardo Fialetto'.Provenance
Bequeathed by Sir Henry Wotton to Charles I in 1637; sold as a set of five for £25 from Hampton Court on 23 October 1651 (no 283); recovered at the Restoration and listed in the Backstairs Room at Hampton Court in 1666 (nos 181-5)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
165.2 x 125.1 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
151.8 x 98.5 cm (support (etc), excluding additions)
193.1 x 151.7 x 6.8 cm (frame, external)