Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)

Titian, the Venetian master whose oil paintings defined the High Renaissance, also left behind a body of drawings and prints that reveal his working hand. The sheets gathered here span several graphic techniques, from pen and brown ink with white gouache highlights to red chalk on blue-gray paper, alongside a rare silk-on-linen piece. Ten works make up this selection, ranging from studies of trees, satyrs and landscapes to a portrait of Archbishop Filippo Archinto, with impressions up to 1900 reflecting later printings of his designs.

10 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

Winged Putto Holding the Base of a Cross

1477–1510 · Red chalk, heightened with white, on blue-gray paper

Group of Trees

1485/90–1576 · Pen and brown ink, traces of gray printer's ink at lower right, on beige paper

Landscape with a Goat

1500–11 · Pen and brown ink; framing lines in pen and brown ink

Venus and Adonis (1550s)

1550s · Oil on canvas

Two Satyrs in a Landscape

ca. 1505–10 · Pen and brown ink, highlighted with white gouache on fine, off-white laid paper

Madonna and Child (ca. 1508)

ca. 1508 · Oil on wood

The Submersion of Pharoah's Army in the Red Sea, from twelve blocks: 'Block I, below Block H', showing the sea and a dog defecating

ca. 1514–15 (published 1549) · Woodcut

Portrait of a Man (ca. 1515)

ca. 1515 · Oil on canvas

Tablecloth and napkin

ca. 1900 · Silk on linen

Filippo Archinto (born about 1500, died 1558), Archbishop of Milan

mid-1550s · Oil on canvas