Venus of Urbino
Thomas Rowlandson|Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)
1799 · Etching and stipple, printed in brown ink · Drawings and Prints
Around 1799, Rowlandson etched a series of works after Italian masters, often centered on nude figures. The present example is based on Titian's famous painting (Uffizi Gallery), where Venus rests naked on a bed, holding roses, as a puppy sleeps near her feet, and two women in the background take clothes from a chest.
- Artist
- Thomas Rowlandson|Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)
- Date
- 1799
- Medium
- Etching and stipple, printed in brown ink
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by Exchange, 1970