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Lot 217
  • 217

After Jacopo da Ponte, called Jacopo Bassano

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Description

  • Jacopo da Ponte, called Jacopo Bassano
  • The Holy family with Saint John the Baptist, the flight into Egypt beyond
  • inscribed with the old inventory number on the reverse: B / 291
  • oil on canvas

Catalogue Note

A 16th century copy after Bassano's original in the Galleria Pallavicini, Rome (see F. Zeri, La Galleria Pallavicini in Roma, Florence 1956, cat. no. 19, pp. 34-5, reproduced plate 19).

The subject is taken from Mathew II verses 12-14.