Hunting Diana by Titian Vecellio

The picture is not finished. It is assumed that she was to enter the cycle dedicated to Diana and commissioned by Titian Philip II in 1556. Apparently, the picture was not completed on time and work on it continued in the 60s of the 16th century. In the XVII century the painting was in the collection of the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in Brussels and together with other paintings of this collection was reproduced in 1660 in the “Theatrum Pictoricum” of Teniers.

Apparently, then was in the Roman collection of the Swedish Queen Cristina, later – in the Palazzo Odescalchi in Rome, in 1721-1792 – at the Dukes of Orleans. Since the end of the XVIII century – in private English collections. The last owner of the picture, Lord Hurwood, handed it over to the London National Gallery for temporary use, but in 1971 it was put up for sale at Christie’s auction and acquired by the American billionaire Paul Getty. In 1972, he was bought from him for the London National Gallery for money collected in England by public subscription