A double-portrait attributable to Marietta Tintoretto

• Autores: Duncan Bull
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 151, Nº 1279, 2009, págs. 678-681
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The writer attributes a double portrait to Marietta Tintoretto, daughter of Jacopo Tintoretto. The work entered the Dresden collections in 1749 as by Jacopo Tintoretto but was later reattributed to Marietta's brother Domenico. It is extremely tempting to identify it as a double-portrait of father and son Jacopo and Ottavio Strada, done at the same time that Ottavio was sitting to Jacopo Tintoretto, but the boy in the Dresden portrait in no way resembles the dark-haired Ottavio as depicted by Marietta's father. It seems worth speculating whether the delicate and feminine features of the youthful sitter may be those of a girl, and specifically whether that girl might be Marietta, clad in the masculine clothes she habitually wore. The writer argues that this was a work by Marietta in which she portrayed herself in deferential conversation with Strada, and on this basis suggests a solution for the vexed question of her birth date.