Study of Titian for "Titian Showing the Entombment to Charles V and Clement VII"

Daniel Huntington's preparatory drawing depicts Titian, the Venetian master, in profile wearing a Renaissance cap. Executed in ink on brown paper, this study served Huntington's composition imagining a pivotal moment in art history—the presentation of Titian's *Entombment* to two of Europe's most powerful rulers. Huntington, a leading American academic painter, employed such historical reconstructions to elevate art as a subject worthy of grand narrative treatment. The sketch's confident linear style and focus on physiognomy reflect nineteenth-century practices of historical research through portraiture, positioning the artist as a significant historical figure deserving of monumental commemoration.