Painting: Le Concert Champêtre (Pastoral Concert), a work which the Louvre now attributes to Titian, and some others credit to Giorgione. Details: oil on canvas, dimensions 110 cm x 138 cm, location at Musée du Louvre, Paris.
The uncertainty in distinguishing between the paintings of Giorgione and Titian is most apparent in the case of the Concert Champêtre (Pastoral Concert) described in 2003 as ‘perhaps the most contentious problem of attribution in the whole of Italian Renaissance art’, but affects a large number of paintings possibly from Giorgione's last years. The Concert Champêtre is one of a group of paintings, which are very close in style and have been more and more frequently given to Titian. But no one has been able to create a coherent sequence of Titian's early works that includes these ones, in a way that commands general support, and fits the known facts of his career.
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