Study of Trees

Titian Camagnola

Summary

A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Titian or Domenico Campagnola. The drawing shows an uneven hillside with a group of trees. To the right is an open space and at the right edge of the group of trees is a large tree trunk that has been cut down. Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society: "No. 9 TITIAN OR DOMENICO CAMPAGNOLA (?) STUDY OF TREES Metropolitan Museum, New York. From the Collection of Sir James Knowles. Pen and ink. 21.8 x 32 cm. (8 5/8 x 12 5/8 in.). This very fine study of the trunks and foliage of a dense wood or clump standing on a knoll seems to stand on the borderland between the early work of Titian and the best of Domenico Campagnola. The work of both of these masters in landscape was of course originally derived from Giorgione, to whom this drawing is assigned in an inscription of no great antiquity at the foot. The vague mare's tail shading of the foreground suggests Campagnola, but in no other drawing of his are the trunks modelled with so much breadth and mastery of stroke, or the foliage so well characterized and massed. Great obscurity surrounds the whole question of Titian's drawings, but this seems as likely as any example extant to be genuine work of his earlier years. S. C."