8 TITIAN As the old inscription indicates, this magnificent finished landscape study is given by (Tiziano Vecellio) tradition to the great Venetian Renaissance painter Titian, whose drawings are rare. Italian, circa 1480­1576 There are analogies of composition with certain details in his pictures, for example the Pastoral Scene background of Venus and Cupid with a Luteplayer (Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum). Pen and brown ink, black chalk, The subject is enigmatic. The nude woman on the right with a drapery covering with some corrections in white her head is incongruously juxtaposed with a flock of sheep, accompanied by a boar bodycolor in the trees 19.6 x 30.1 cm (7 11/16 x 11 7/8 in.) and a goat, tended by two shepherds resting beneath the clump of trees in the center. Cat. I, no. 51; 85.GG.98 The pen work is smoothly and exquisitely handled, achieving an impressive variety of technical effects, the meticulous execution and concern for detail admirably suggesting the light, space, and different physical forms of the landscape. 16 ITALIAN SCHOOL