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Lot 22TP

Venetian School
16th Century
Portrait of Michele Priuli, three-quarter-length, in the robes of a Venetian Senator, standing before a column,

5 December 2018, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Venetian School, 16th Century

Portrait of Michele Priuli, three-quarter-length, in the robes of a Venetian Senator, standing before a column, with a page at his side
inscribed 'MICHAEL PRIOLVS./ D.M. PROCVRATOR. (on the column, upper right)
oil on canvas
126.4 x 108.5cm (49 3/4 x 42 11/16in).

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Provenance
Sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 24 March 2004, lot 3 (hammer EUR 45,000, as Jacopo Robusti, il Tintoretto), where purchased by the present owner

The Priuli were a wealthy family, probably of Hungarian origins, who entered the Venetian nobility in the early 14th century. Prominent among them was Michele Priuli (1565-1637), the son of Francesco, who was a Senator and Procurator to San Marco, Venice.

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