Two shepherd boys lead a flock of animals into the picture along a winding road. A man on a packmule and a goat follow behind. On the right is a tall tree; to the left are cottages, and in the distance the sun is breaking through clouds behind a mountain range. The mountain range resembles the Dolomites, but the painting is unlikely to represent a specific viewpoint. The painting appears to be a ‘pure landscape’ - a rare subject in Italian painting of the sixteenth century. However, it is equally possible that the subject is a hitherto unidentified pastoral narrative - it is iconographically indistinguishable from woodcut illustrations in Francesco Sansovino’s edition of Sannazaro’s ‘Arcadia’, which represents two shepherds, Montano and Uranio. The motifs in the painting are consistent with a number of prints published after Titian’s designs, and it is likely that the composition is a seventeenth-century copy after a lost work by Titian from c. 1530. This could have been a drawing or perhaps a painting – contemporary documents seem to attest to the existence of landscape paintings by Titian, although these references are somewhat ambiguous, and no ‘pure landscape’ paintings by his hand survive today.