Workshop of Jacopo da Ponte, called Jacopo Bassano

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.