Offered by Del Rey Antiquités
Titien- Tiziano Vecellio, known as Titien ( attributed to)
Pieve di Cadore, around 1488-1490- Venice
Country landscape with houses and trees.
Feather and brown ink. Dubbling.
Mark of the Gustave Soulier collection (1872-1937) at the bottom right (Lugt.1215a)
On the reverse a Tiziano ink inscription and at the bottom right an inventory number 819
art historian, author of a biography of Tintoret (1912) and collector of drawings by ancient masters, Gustave Soulier was director of the French Institute of Naples.
To be compared to the indicative of the landscape drawings of the maturity of Titien ( Catalogue the exhibition The century of Titien, Paris, grand Palais; mature and the last years numerous 218- RMN 1993)