Georges d'Armagnac (c.1501–1585), Bishop of Rodez, with His Secretary Guillaume Philandrier (d.1565)

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This copy, after an original by Titian, shows the influential Georges d’Armagnac (c.1501–1585), Bishop of Rodez, with his constant companion Guillaume Philandrier (d.1565), who had been his secretary since 1533. It was painted during d’Armagnac’s appointment as French Ambassador to the Venetian court from 1536–1539. During the religious upheavals of the period he supported Rome against the Huguenots and in 1576 was appointed Archbishop of Avignon. He was a scholar, as was Philandrier who wrote the first French commentary on Vitruvius (1544).

Titian’s original is in the collection of the Duke of Northumberland. The Museum’s copy is said to have come with the Cottonian collection in 1753.

British Museum

London

Title

Georges d'Armagnac (c.1501–1585), Bishop of Rodez, with His Secretary Guillaume Philandrier (d.1565)

Date

early 18th C–mid-18th C (?)

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 107.4 x W 130 cm

Accession number

Painting.9

Acquisition method

gift as part of the Cotton Collection, 1753

Work type

Painting

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