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This apparent contradiction led scholars in the past to believe that the painting was a seventeenth-century pastiche, but recent evidence has led to a re-evaluation. An X-radiograph not only shows that the boy once had wings, which have been painted over, but also that there is a totally different composition beneath the paint layers. This relates to the woodcut designed by Titian, Landscape with a Milkmaid, dated to around 1523. This makes it clear that A Boy with a Bird was made in Titian’s workshop, giving independent life to a motif extracted from the innovative Venus and Adonis.
Title
A Boy with a Bird
Date
probably 1520s
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 34.9 x W 48.9 cm
Accession number
NG933
Acquisition method
Wynn Ellis Bequest, 1876
Work type
Painting
