Set of four lithographic prints comprising:
lithographic print of painting by Giorgione entitled A Shepherd with a Pipe, originally painted c.1510-15
Acquired by Charles I (1600-49) as by Giorgione, recovered after the Restoration.Oil on canvas. Now attributed to Titian, this haunting pastoral theme is reminiscent of Giorgione with whom Titian was apprenticed. However the execution of the painting gives rise to the thought that it may have been painted by Titian based on a lost original conceived by Giorgione. Never the less, some scholars continue to attribute 'The Shepherd' to Giorgione.
Print size inches: 7.2 x 9.2 together with lithographic print of painting by Lorenzo Lotto entitled Andrea Odoni, originally painted 1527 (signed and dated 1527)
Among the pictures presented to Charles II (1630-85) in 1660 by the States of Holland and West Friesland.Oil on canvas. Portrait of the Humanist and antique dealer Andrea Odoni surrounded by his collection of antiques, coins and a book. His outstretched hand holds a small statuette, possibly Egyptian. In Venice, where this portrait was executed in 1527 in addition to being Lotto's birthplace, there was widespread interest among the Humanists in Egyptian hieroglyphics as a source of arcane knowledge and divine wisdom.
Print size inches: 8.9 x 7.9 together with lithographic print of painting by Giovanni Bellini entitled Portrait of a Young Man, originally painted c.1505
Acquired by George III, King of the United Kingdom (1738-1820) in 1762 as part of the collection of British Consul Joseph Smith.Oil on panel. Signed below on a label, this painting is one of the last surviving portraits executed by Bellini. Although unidentified, the apparel worn by the sitter is typical of a Venetian cittadino and may possibly be the Venetian writer and humanist Pietro Bembo (1470-1547).
Print size inches: 7.4 x 9.4 together with lithographic print of painting by Titian entitled Portrait of a Man, originally painted 1518 (c.1514-18)
Acquirer Charles II (1630-85). Among the pictures presented to Charles II in 1660 by the States of Holland and West Friesland.Oil on canvas. Dated variously as from 1511 to early 1520s, the vestments and hairstyle worn by the sitter would indicate a date closer to 1513. Although the sitter is unknown, the pose with his finger marking a page in the book, suggests a writer or humanist the most likely of whom being the Neapolitan poet Jacopo Sannazaro (1458-1530) and is listed as such in The Queen's Collection.
Print size inches: 7.7 x 9.3