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Circle of Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian (Pieve di Cadore circa 1488-1576 Venice)

A fallen warrior twisting around to the left holding a sword and shield

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Circle of Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian (Pieve di Cadore circa 1488-1576 Venice)
A fallen warrior twisting around to the left holding a sword and shield
with inscription 'Giorgione'
black and white chalk on blue paper, the corners cut
8 1/8 x 12 in. (201 x 306 mm.)

Provenance

Bartolommeo Cavaceppi, Rome.
Michelangelo Pacetti (L. 2057), before 1843, from whom purchased by Waagen for the
Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, with their release stamp marked 'frei gegeben'.
Theodore Allen Heinrich, Director of the Royal Ontario Museum; Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1989, lot 67 (as Attributed to Paris Bordone).

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Lot Essay

Comparable in handling to a drawing of Two reclining nudes, of similar format and technique, in the Uffizi (H. Tietze and E. Tietze-Conrat, The Drawings of the Venetian Painters, New York, 1944 (reprinted 1970), no. A1898, pl. CXCV). While Hadeln gave the latter drawing to Titian in full, the Tietzes placed it closer to Tintoretto or perhaps Malombra, although they felt 'a certain reluctance to attribute as impressive a drawing as this to a minor artist' (op. cit., I, p. 315). W.R. Rearick reaffirmed the attribution to Titian, and dated it to 1546, following the artists return from Rome (W.R. Rearick, Il disegno veneziano del Cinquecento , Milan, 2001, p. 102 and fig. 44). Harold Wethey returns to the suggestion that it is close to Jacopo Tintoretto, suggesting a date circa 1560 (H.A. Wethey, Titian and his drawings, Princeton, 1987, no. A-43).

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