Abstract
Summary In this essay the attention is directed towards a painting in the National Museum in Stockhohn, which usually is ascribed to Girolamo Romanino and sometimes to Dosso Dossi, and which earlier has been regarded as depicting Cesare Borgia, Duke of Valentino. The painting came to the National Museum in 1919 and can be traced via English private ownership to the Orleans Collection in Paris and from there to the ownership of Queen Christina in Rome. The painting is entered as a portrait of the Duke of Valentino in all the inventories of Queen Christina's art collections, the first time in 1677. The portrait is also mentioned by the Swedish architect Nicodemus Tessin the younger, when he at his last visit to Rome in 1687–88 wrote a description of Queen Christina's art collection in the Palazzo Riario. In the inventories the painting is attributed to Correggio. Tessin states it is a work of Tizian, this possibly being suggested to him by the well known art‐historian Giovanni Pietro Bellori who acted as a ...
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