# Study for St Peter [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TIZIANO Vecellio]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Charcoal on faded blue paper, 157 x 134 mm ## Commentary Study for St Peter c. 1516 Charcoal on faded blue paper, 157 x 134 mm British Museum, London This is the earliest surviving drawing by Titian that can definitely be connected with any of his paintings. It is a study for the head of St Peter in the Assumption, the figure seated on the Virgin's sarcophagus in the central foreground of the painting. ## Related artworks - [A Knight of Malta]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Allegory of Time Governed by Prudence]() - [Angel of the Annunciation]() - [Annunciation]() - [Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle \(detail\)]() - [Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()