Description

Titian Collotype Study for “Worship of Venus”

Titian collotype on heavy cream-colored paper.

From a European drawings portfolio published in 1944.

Collotype printing involved an expensive and lengthy process that produced prints that looked nearly identical to original drawings.

Specifications

✓ Signed in the plate.

✓ Measuring: approx 11 inch x 14 inch (27,5 cm x 35 cm).

✓ Printed single sided with blank back with the exception of artist and title at lower corner on reverse.

✓ This collotype is a detailed study for Titian’s ‘worship of Venus’.

Information on collotype printing

Collotype is a dichromate-based photographic process invented by Alphonse Poitevin in 1856. It was used for more precise/identical prints of original drawings or large volume mechanical printing before the existence of the cheaper offset lithography.

Information on Titian

Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576) better known as Titian was an italian painter. The most important member of the 16th-century venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno (in Veneto), in the republic of Venice.

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