Lot 116
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Follower of Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian
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Follower of Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian

The lovers

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Follower of Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian
The lovers
oil on canvas
33½ x 28¼ in. (85.1 x 71.7 cm.)
in an Italian 18th Century carved and gilded frame
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Lot Essay

The composition derives from a lost painting by Titian, of which various copies are known. One is in the Casa Buonarroti, Florence (see W. Suida, Tiziano, Rome, 1933, p. 149, pl. XXXII b) and another is in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle (catalogued as by Giovanni Cariani, see J. Shearman, Early Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, Cambridge, 1983, pp. 69-72, no. 65, pl. 62, and more recently proposed as the lost original, see P. Joannides, Titian to 1518, New Haven and London, 2001, pp. 253-4).

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