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FRANCESCO DA PONTE, IL GIOVANE CALLED BASSANO | The Adoration of the Shepherds
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December 5, 12:50 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Property from a European Private Collection
FRANCESCO DA PONTE, IL GIOVANE CALLED BASSANO
Bassano del Grappa circa 1549 - 1592 Venice
The Adoration of the Shepherds
bears signature lower right: GIACOMO. BASSANO. F. MDLXI
oil on canvas
159.8 x 139.7 cm.; 62⅞ x 55 in.
We are grateful to Professor Alessandro Ballarin for endorsing the attribution to Francesco Bassano following inspection of images, and for dating the work to the 1580s, when the artist was working in Venice. The painting is closely related to one of Francesco's finest and most famous works, the signed Nativity altarpiece he painted for the church of Il Redentore on the Giudecca, Venice.1
1 E. Arslan, I Bassano, Milan 1960, vol. I, p. 224.