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FRANCESCO BASSANO LE JEUNE (BASSANO DEL GRAPPA 1549 - VENISE 1592)
Estimate35 000 - 40 000 €
FRANCESCO BASSANO LE JEUNE (BASSANO DEL GRAPPA 1549 - VENISE 1592)
The Assumption of the Virgin
Oil on canvas
154 x 107.5 cm
Provenance - William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), former
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Chancellor of the Exchequer| acquired in Italy in 1850-1851.
- Remained in the progeny until 2004|
London, Sotheby's, 8 July 2004, lot no. 155, reproduced.
- Acquired at this sale by the present owner.
Bibliography:
TOSINI Patrizia, Girolamo Muziano, dalla
Maniera alla Natura, Rome, Ugo Bozzi, 2008, 575p.
PIERGUIDI Stefano, "Girolamo Muziano e
Francesco Bassano: due pittori per un'Assunzione della Vergine", in Brixia Sacra, Rome, Studium, January-December 2016
GERE, J. A. "Two of Taddeo Zuccaro's Last
Commissions, Completed by Federico Zuccaro.
I: The Pucci Chapel in S. Trinità
Dei Monti." The Burlington Magazine, vol. 108, no. 759, 1966, pp. 286-284.
The painting that we present is to be related to the painting overlooking the high altar of St. Louis des Français, work of Francesco Bassano realized in 1589, of which it is very probably the modello, of a high degree of completion.
From 1572, important works were carried out in the Church of St. Louis of the French, at the instigation of the French Cardinal Matthieu Cointrel (1519- 1585, known in Italy as Matteo Contarelli). Girolamo Muziano was commissioned to create a triptych altarpiece with the Assumption of the Virgin in the centre, surrounded by St. Louis, King of France and Charlemagne, a project that had already been envisaged since 1566. The altarpiece was executed around 1573 - 1574, placed in the presbytery in August 1574, and was completed in 1581. In November 1585, a few days before his death, the cardinal had Muziano's painting (1) replaced by another of his commissions, of the same subject, by the Venetian Francesco Bassano. Some interesting compositional changes are to be noted between our version and the final version: if the lower part, illustrating the group
The Assumption of the Virgin
Oil on canvas
154 x 107.5 cm
Provenance - William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), former
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Chancellor of the Exchequer| acquired in Italy in 1850-1851.
- Remained in the progeny until 2004|
London, Sotheby's, 8 July 2004, lot no. 155, reproduced.
- Acquired at this sale by the present owner.
Bibliography:
TOSINI Patrizia, Girolamo Muziano, dalla
Maniera alla Natura, Rome, Ugo Bozzi, 2008, 575p.
PIERGUIDI Stefano, "Girolamo Muziano e
Francesco Bassano: due pittori per un'Assunzione della Vergine", in Brixia Sacra, Rome, Studium, January-December 2016
GERE, J. A. "Two of Taddeo Zuccaro's Last
Commissions, Completed by Federico Zuccaro.
I: The Pucci Chapel in S. Trinità
Dei Monti." The Burlington Magazine, vol. 108, no. 759, 1966, pp. 286-284.
The painting that we present is to be related to the painting overlooking the high altar of St. Louis des Français, work of Francesco Bassano realized in 1589, of which it is very probably the modello, of a high degree of completion.
From 1572, important works were carried out in the Church of St. Louis of the French, at the instigation of the French Cardinal Matthieu Cointrel (1519- 1585, known in Italy as Matteo Contarelli). Girolamo Muziano was commissioned to create a triptych altarpiece with the Assumption of the Virgin in the centre, surrounded by St. Louis, King of France and Charlemagne, a project that had already been envisaged since 1566. The altarpiece was executed around 1573 - 1574, placed in the presbytery in August 1574, and was completed in 1581. In November 1585, a few days before his death, the cardinal had Muziano's painting (1) replaced by another of his commissions, of the same subject, by the Venetian Francesco Bassano. Some interesting compositional changes are to be noted between our version and the final version: if the lower part, illustrating the group