Old Master Paintings and Portrait Miniatures
Old Master Paintings and Portrait Miniatures
The Crucifixion
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April 28, 01:15 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Workshop of Jacopo da Ponte, called Jacopo Bassano
Bassano del Grappa circa 1510 - 1592
The Crucifixion
oil on canvas
unframed: 67.4 x 51 cm.; 26½ x 20⅛ in.
framed: 79.3 x 63 cm.; 31¼ x 24⅞ in.
The present composition originally derives from a lost prototype by Jacopo Bassano.1 A Crucifixion scene in the Muzeul National de Arta in Bucharest by Jacopo Bassano and workshop, dated 1556 and measuring 194 x 136.5 cm is closely related to the present work but differs in various details such as the landscape, and the addition of two figures in the group at the feet of the cross. A 17th century copy of the group, with the same figures as in the Bucharest version, was published in the Burlington Magazine in 1960.2
The figure of Christ is repeated with minor variations on other versions with different figure groups and derives originally from the large Crucifixion with Saint Jerome of 1562/3 now in the Museo Civico in Treviso.3 This same figure is also present in a Crucifixion scene attributed to Giambattista Bassano in Bonn,4 and another by Leandro Bassano in S.S. Giovanni e Paolo in Venice.5
1 A. Ballarin, Jacopo Bassano: tavole. Parte prima (1531-1568), Padua 1996, cat. no. 446.
2 B. N., ‘Old and Modern Masters in Manchester’, in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 102, October 1960, reproduced p. 461, fig. 53.
3 http://catalogo.museicivicitreviso.it/opera.php?opere_id=594bbeb0020b3d2
4 E. Arslan, I Bassano, II, Milan 1960, cat. no. 246.
5 Arslan 1960, cat. no. 279.