Portrait of Benedetto Varchi
Artist	Titian
Year	c. 1536–1540
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	119.3 cm× 92.7 cm(47.0 in× 36.5 in)
Location	Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Accession	GG_91

Portrait of Benedetto Varchi, also called Portrait of a Man, is an oil on canvas painting by Titian. It was painted c. 1536-1540, and hangs today in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, in Vienna.

Contents

• Analysis
• Provenance
• Gallery
• See also
• References
• Sources

Analysis

According to Walter Gronau, the indication that the person here represented is Benedetto Varchi, the Florentine historian and humanist scholar, seems in no way proved. ^[1] It is signed "Titianus F.", with some repainting. ^[2] Though restored, Gronau thinks it a genuine work by Titian. From the style, he thinks that this portrait must have been painted about 1550, possibly somewhat later. ^[1] The Kunsthistorisches Museum, however, identifies the sitter as Benedetto Varchi without any qualification, and states that it was probably painted during his stay in Venice in 1536–1540. ^[3]

Provenance

• 1636—Collection of Bartolomeo della Nave, Venice;
• 1638–1649—Collection of the Duke of Hamilton;
• 1659 —Collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, Vienna. ^{[1] [3]}

Gallery

• 
  Original portrait by Titian, c. 1540
• 
  Engraved by Lucas Vorsterman the Elder after Titian for the Theatrum Pictorium , 1673

See also

• List of works by Titian

References

Sources

• Gronau, Georg (1904). Titian . London: Duckworth and Co; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 276.
• Ricketts, Charles (1910). Titian . London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. p. 176, plate cxix.
• "Benedetto Varchi". Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. Retrieved 23 November 2022.