 By 7 June 1823 , Etty felt that he had reached the limits of what he could accomplish in Venice , and was considering returning home . Soon afterwards he left Venice for Florence , with the intention of creating a full @-@ size replica of Titian 's Venus of Urbino , considered one of the finest works of the Venetian school of painting . Although the Uffizi management were hostile to this proposal , after 10 days of negotiations they allowed Etty to create his copy . His contemporaries considered it among the finest copies ever made of a painting generally considered to be impossible to copy . In late July Etty began the journey home , pausing for a further two months in Venice . On 8 October 1823 Etty finally left Venice , travelling via Mantua and Geneva to Paris . 
