Lot 331
  • 331

After Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian
  • A PASTORAL LANDSCAPE WITH THREE SHEPHERDS ATTENDING THEIR FLOCK OF SHEEP AND A DONKEY, A RIVER WITH BOATS SAILING, A TOWN AND MOUNTAINS BEYOND
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Beets collection, Amsterdam;
With Thomas Agnew & Sons;
From whom acquired by Boyd Alexander Esq.;
Thence by family descent.

Exhibited

Gemeente Musea van Amsterdam, Italianische Kunst (according to a label to the reverse), date unknown

Literature

R. Van Marle, Developments of the Italian School of Painting, 1930, pp. 3840, 116, 118 (as by Titian);
A.C. Sewter and D. White, 'Variations on a Theme of Titian, in Apollo, vol. 95, 1972, notes 20, 21;
H. Wethey, Titian and his Drawings, Princeton 1987, pp. 161-2, no. 46.1.

Catalogue Note

This is a copy after an engraving of a drawing by Titian in the Albertina, Vienna (see H. Wethey, Titian and his Drawings, Princeton 1987, pp. 161-2, no. 46).