Documento sobre los emolumentos de Tiziano y su heredero.

DOCUMENT SIGNED ("YO EL REY"), ABOUT TITIAN ("FIDELIS NOBIS DILECTUS TITIANUS VECELIUS PICTOR")

confirming his annual pension for his services to Philip and his predecessor Charles V of 200 scudi [originally granted by Charles to Titian in 1548] and that it will be paid not just for his lifetime but will also pass to his son Orazio on his death, and that it should be drawn in Philip's territory of Milan, counter-signed by Vargas and Herrera, with a summary in Spanish on verso, also a note dated 23 April 1572 in a panel on verso (somewhat faded).

one sheet on vellum (320 x 530mm.), written in brown ink, in an Alfred Morrison collection folder with his notes on acquisition, Madrid, 5 July 1571, creased and stained with a couple of small holes, affecting some text

CATALOGUE NOTE

Titian (c. 1488-1576) was already an old man at the time of this document; shortly after this was issued, he wrote to Philip II to say that he was 95 years old, though Lodovico Dolce stated that he was born in 1490. His son did not live to enjoy his pension as he died within a month of his father, both apparently struck down by the plague in Venice. His brother Pomponio managed to squander all their father's wealth within five years.