LX1261, Christmas, 1985

Titian (1488/90-1576)

Titian or Tiziano Vecellio was born in a small alpine village of Pieve di Cadore, now not far from the Austrian border, where his family lived for many years. His parents, Lucia and Gregorio di Conte dei Vecelli, were respectable people of modest means. In about 1498, at the age of nine or ten, Titian and his elder brother Francesco were sent to Venice to start their training as painters in the workshop of the mosaicist Sebastiano Zuccato. Though soon Titian left his workshop and began studying painting in the workshops of Gentile Bellini and Giovanni Bellini.

Date of issue: 24 December 1985

Design: after a painting by Titian (1488/90-1576)

Engraving: Jean de Vos

Printing & editor: Rodan, Brussels

Size engraving: 48 x 33 mm.

Circulation: limited edition between 400 and 700*

* These etching where printed on a double folded mould-made paper sheet, on the inside the Christmas wishes were written or printed (see underneath an example). Some people kept the left side of this card, which made the “luxury sheet”; it goes without saying that the majority many were lost or damaged in the mail.

LX1261. Imperforated luxury sheet, orange. 200F

Etching on mould-made paper

Printed on the back:

There are no variations or curiosities known for none of the above shown material.