Etching from the series 'Opera Selectior', published by Jacobus Van Campen, 1682, Venice, 335 x 453 mm
 
A landscape with farmers trying to lead a startled horse across a waterway. The defining element to the composition are the great menacing trees on the left side, and on the other side with steep cliffs where a city looms in the distance. In the clouds we immediately recognize the innovations that the Venetian master Titian (1488-1576) brought to landscape art more than a century earlier.
 
The publication 'Opera Selectior', performed by Brussels born Valentin Lefebre (1637-1677), who worked in Venice, was the 17th century way of spreading the oeuvre of the Venetian masters Titian and Veronese to a wide audience. The complete collection was published by the printer and entrepreneur Jacobus van Campen, who also works in Venice, and contains 53 scenes from the Venetian School. The work in question is unique in that Titian's original example, whether drawing or painting, is now unknown to us.
 
A similar copy can be found in the collection of The British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0612-1438
 
The edges of the paper have been shortened, otherwise the work is in good condition and is carefully framed in a fantastic Florentine style frame (frame size 48 x 58 cm)
 
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