Manner of Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian

The canvas is unlined but still stable. The paint surface is well preserved with areas of only slight abrasion. The impasto is well preserved. Inspection under UV light reveals only very minor scattered stengthenings, a small resotred hole lower right and a small restored tear in the angel's wing. Overall in good condition and offered in plain wood frame in some good condition.
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A nineteenth-century copy, circa 1830, after Titian's original in the Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples (see F. Pedrocco, Titian, London 2001, p. 192, cat. no. 137, reproduced).