LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

37.48 in. (95.20 cm.) (height) by 49.53 in. (125.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'JACs ET FRANCs [FIL]' (lower left, on the step)

Exhibited:

Enniskillen, 1944. Belfast, Pictures from Irish Houses, 1961, no. 16 (entry by A. Crookshank). Bassano del Grappa, Museo Civico, and Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Jacopo Bassano, c. 1510-1592, 5 September-6 December 1992 and 23 January-25 April 1993, no. 62 (entry by L. Alberton Vinco da Sesso). Paris, Musée du Louvre, Titien, Tintoret, Véronèse..Rivalité à Venise, 17 September 2009-4 January 2010, no. 40.

Literature:

A. Ballarin, 'La vecchiaia di Jacopo Bassano', Atti del R. Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, CXXV, 1966-7, p.168. R. Rearick, 'Jacopo Bassano's Later Genre Pictures', The Burlington Magazine, CX, May 1968, p. 245, illustrated. R. Rearick, 'Dal Ponte, Jacopo detto Bassano', in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, XXXII, Rome, 1986, p. 186. A. Ballarin, 'Jacopo Bassano. S. Pietro risana lo storpio', in the exhibition catalogue, Pittori Padani e Toscani tra Quattro e Cinquecento, Venice, 1988, p. 4. L. Alberton Vinco da Sesso, 'Bassano', in The Dictionary of Art, London and New York, 1996, 3, p. 347.

Provenance:

Possibly Nicolas Renier, Venice, in whose possession a picture of the subject by Jacopo Bassano is recorded by C. Ridolfi, Le meraviglie dell'arte.., Venice, 1648, I, p. 395. The Earls of Erne, Crum Castle.