Pastorale [The Pastoral Concert], after Titian, plate 138 from the Recueil d’estampes d’après les plus beaux tableaux et d’après les plus beaux dessins qui sont en France [Collection of Prints after the Most Beautiful Paintings and Drawings in France](the
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Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis
(Paris, France, 1698–1771)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Date1729
MediumEtching and engraving
DimensionsSheet: 21 5/8 × 15 7/8 in. (55 × 40.3 cm)
Additional Dimension: 13 1/8 × 15 3/8 in. (33.3 × 39 cm)
Additional Dimension: 13 1/8 × 15 3/8 in. (33.3 × 39 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, University Purchase, P1963.4.138
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Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object numberP1963.4.138/178
On View
Not on viewTraditionally attributed to Giorgione, The Pastoral Concert is now considered a work from Titian's youth. This mysterious painting is meant to be an allegory of Poetry, whose symbols - the flute and the pouring water - are shared between two nude women of ideal beauty. These unreal figures exist only in the imaginations of the two men they inspire, according to a taste widespread in Venice for simultaneous depictions of the visible and invisible. Louvre website Sept. 2011
Simon Francois Ravenet, the elder
after 1730-before 1740
Anne-Claude-Philippe de Tubieres, called Comte De Comte de Caylus
1729
Anne-Claude-Philippe de Tubieres, called Comte De Comte de Caylus
1729