Franz von Lenbach
A Concert (Copy of a painting by Giorgione (1477/78–1510) or Titian (1485/90–1576), c. 1510–11, in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence), 1865
Öl auf Leinwand, 109,8 x 123,2 cm
1865 durch Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack erworben
Inv. Nr. 11486
A Concert (Copy of a painting by Giorgione (1477/78–1510) or Titian (1485/90–1576), c. 1510–11, in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence)
The original painting has been seen as a portrait of a group of Flemish musicians, as an allegory of music and as a depiction of the three ages of human life. In the nineteenth century it was considered a major work by Giorgione, but current opinion favours an attribution to the young Titian. In 1855 Jacob Burckhardt noted of the picture: ‘Especially stimulating in relation to speculation about the intellectual origins of such paintings; uses very little to produce an effect of unfathomable depth.’