Artist: Tiziano Vecellio (Titian)
Topic: Portraits
Date: 1536
Size: 101 x 86 cm
Museum: Palazzo della Provincia (Mantua, Italy)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
This is Titian's only known surviving drawing for any of his painted portraits. A study above all of the suit of armour and to capture the pose, it is clearly based on a model rather than on the duke himself, to whom the head bears little resemblance. The drawing thus confirms what one might in any case have suspected: that Titian's portraits were not executed in the presence of his sitters, most of whom were too grand or too busy to devote much time to posing for the painter.
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