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Catalog of Portraits, 1909-1911, 1929 [page 3]
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in green ink: History of Portrait
According to Milanesi, Titian painted Aretino six times. Once as Pilate in the "Christ Before Pilate," at Vienna, once as a soldier in the "Allocution of del Vasto," in the same Gallery, and four times in separate portraits. One of these, painted for Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, is now in the Pitti; another was sent to the Marquis of Mantua; the third belonged to the engraver Marcolini, and the fourth was done for Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici. Since Ippolito was poisoned in 1535, and while this picture must clearly date from the forties, there is every probability that it is the one which was once in Marcolini's possession. Marcolini used to boast of this that Titian had painted it in three days, and indeed there is nothing incredible in such a statement. in green ink: Ŧ
in green ink: Ŧ Roger E. Fry.
[3] From the Collection of the Chigi Palace, Rome.