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29 - AFTER TIBERIO DI TITITHE MEDICI KENNEL-KEEPEROil on canvas130 x 155cm (51 x 61in.)Provenance:The collection of Reginald Cholmondeley Esq., Condover Hall, ShropshireHis posthumous sale, Christie's, London, 6 March 1897, lot 57 (as Spanish School) where purchased by O. SmithThence by descent to Nancy Oswald Smith (1896-1962), Shottesbrooke Park, Maidenhead, BerkshireHer sale, Christie's, London, Ancient and Modern Pictures and Drawings, 13 February 1948, lot 60 (as Spanish School)Literature:‘Shottesbrooke Park, Berks, The Seat of Mr Guy O Smith’, inCountry Life, vol. XXXIII, no. 839, 1 February 1913, pp. 166-167, wheredescribed as ‘an eccentric picture of a dog show, by an unknown artist of theseventeenth century, similar to a painting at Windsor.’This is a nineteenth-century copy of a highly engagingpicture entitled The Medici Kennel-Keeper, a work attributedto the Florentine painter Tiberio di Titto (1573-1627). On the rightof the composition, a man with dwarfism is shown holding a red hat box, fromwhich a terrier emerges. He is surrounded by an assortment of dogs, many ofwhich are decorated with elaborate collars and red bows. This scene isset in the Giardino di Boboli, Florence, with the amphitheatre of theForte Belvedere visible on the skyline, upper left.The prime version was acquired by the Duke ofWestminster from the painter and marchand-amateur WilliamBlundell Spence in 1870, and subsequently sold atSotheby's, London on 8 December 1976 (lot 11). A copy of the Westminsterpicture, dated to circa 1800-1854, was acquired by Queen Victoria fromSpence in 1854 and is preserved in the Royal Collection. It would seemlikely that the present picture dates to the same period as that acquired byQueen Victoria.The 1948 sale at Christie’s of Nancy Oswald Smith’scollection from Shottesbrooke Park included a number of fine Florentinepictures, including two imposing full-length portraits by Jacopo daEmpoli; Portrait of a Noblewoman Dressed in Mourning (c.1600;Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago); and Portrait of a gentleman,possibly of the Strozzi family (Christie’s, London, 8 December 2009,lot 26).
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AFTER TIBERIO DI TITITHE MEDICI KENNEL-KEEPEROil on canvas130 x 155cm (51 x 61in.)Provenance:The collection of Reginald Cholmondeley Esq., Condover Hall, ShropshireHis posthumous sale, Christie's, London, 6 March 1897, lot 57 (as Spanish School) where purchased by O. SmithThence by descent to Nancy Oswald Smith (1896-1962), Shottesbrooke Park, Maidenhead, BerkshireHer sale, Christie's, London, Ancient and Modern Pictures and Drawings, 13 February 1948, lot 60 (as Spanish School)Literature:‘Shottesbrooke Park, Berks, The Seat of Mr Guy O Smith’, inCountry Life, vol. XXXIII, no. 839, 1 February 1913, pp. 166-167, wheredescribed as ‘an eccentric picture of a dog show, by an unknown artist of theseventeenth century, similar to a painting at Windsor.’This is a nineteenth-century copy of a highly engagingpicture entitled The Medici Kennel-Keeper, a work attributedto the Florentine painter Tiberio di Titto (1573-1627). On the rightof the composition, a man with dwarfism is shown holding a red hat box, fromwhich a terrier emerges. He is surrounded by an assortment of dogs, many ofwhich are decorated with elaborate collars and red bows. This scene isset in the Giardino di Boboli, Florence, with the amphitheatre of theForte Belvedere visible on the skyline, upper left.The prime version was acquired by the Duke ofWestminster from the painter and marchand-amateur WilliamBlundell Spence in 1870, and subsequently sold atSotheby's, London on 8 December 1976 (lot 11). A copy of the Westminsterpicture, dated to circa 1800-1854, was acquired by Queen Victoria fromSpence in 1854 and is preserved in the Royal Collection. It would seemlikely that the present picture dates to the same period as that acquired byQueen Victoria.The 1948 sale at Christie’s of Nancy Oswald Smith’scollection from Shottesbrooke Park included a number of fine Florentinepictures, including two imposing full-length portraits by Jacopo daEmpoli; Portrait of a Noblewoman Dressed in Mourning (c.1600;Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago); and Portrait of a gentleman,possibly of the Strozzi family (Christie’s, London, 8 December 2009,lot 26).
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