Focus on Ecce Homo (Titian, Vienna) and discuss the Provenance.
The Ecce Homo Titian finished in the year 1543 for Giovanni d'Anna, a rich Dutch or Flemish merchant settled in Venice, whom Vasari calls "Titian's compare"('gossip'). It was still in the possession of the merchant family in 1580. It was rumoured that King Henry III of France had in vain offered to Paolo d'Anna the sum of 800 ducats for the famous Ecce Homo in 1574. It was purchased by Sir Henry Wotton in the early seventeenth century to pass into the hands of the Duke of Buckingham in 1621, who refused £7000 for it, offered by the Earl of Arundel. The picture left England under the Commonwealth. It was auctioned at Antwerp in 1648, and later acquired by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm for his brother Emperor Ferdinand III in Prague. Mentioned various times as preserved in Prague, it was transferred to Vienna in 1723.
Henry III of France Emperor Ferdinand III Henry Wotton compare Archduke Leopold Wilhelm Titian Duke of Buckingham Vasari Earl of Arundel ducats