LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

24.41 in. (62.00 cm.) (height) by 18.11 in. (46.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed with the device of comet and a tree and the motto: 'NON TROVO TRA GLI AFFANI/ ALTRO RICOVERO' ('I FIND NO OTHER SHELTER FROM HARDSHIP' [than in the arts])

Exhibited:

London, British Institution,. Catalogue of Pictures of the Italian and Spanish Schools.. , 1816, no. 61;. Probably London, British Institution, Catalogue of pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch and French masters.. , June 1838, no. 9 (as L. Bassan); . Probably London, British Institution, Catalogue of portraits of illustrious and eminent persons in history, literature and art.. , June 1846, no. 67 (as Bassan); . Ferrara, Castello Estense, Torquato Tasso tra letteratura, musica, teatro e arti figurative , 6 September - 15 November 1985, no. 66, reproduced in black and white on p. 17; . Bassano del Grappa, Museo Civico, Jacopo Bassano c. 1510-1592 , 5 September - 6 December 1992, no. 41; . Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Libreria Sansoviniana, Torquato Tasso e la Repubblica Veneta , G. Da Pozzo (ed.), 10 October - 11 November 1995, u.n.; . Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts, Este à Ferrara, Une renaissance singulière, La cour des Este à Ferrare , 3 October 2003 - 11 January 2004, no. 15

Literature:

C. Ridolfi,. Le maraviglie dell'arte , Venice 1648, D. von Hadeln (ed.), Berlin 1914-24, vol. I, p. 401;. A Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Pictures .., London 1824, iii, p. 14, no. 43 (as G. Bassan, 2 ft by 1 ft 6 in.); . A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813-1912 , London 1913, vol. I, pp. 42 and 44; . A. Emiliani, 'Ricerca iconografica', in Storia della Letteratura Italiana , Il Cinquecento , vol. IV, E. Cecchi and N. Sapegno (eds), Milan 1966, reproduced in colour opposite p. 720; . A. Emiliani, 'Un'ipotesi per il vero ritratto di Torquato Tasso', in Padova, i secoli, le ore , D. Valeri (ed.), Bologna 1967, pp. 200-03, reproduced on p. 201; . A. Emiliani, 'Un'ipotesi per il vero ritratto di Torquato Tasso', in Studi Tassiani , 1968, n. 18, pp. 132-36; Bergomum, Studi Tassiani , XLII, 1968, 3, pp. 131-36, reproduced opposite p. 136; . L. Firpo (ed.), Torquato Tasso, Tre scritti politici , Turin 1980, p. 87, reproduced in colour; . A. Emiliani in Torquato Tasso tra letteratura, musica, teatro e arti figurative , A. Buzzoni (ed.), exh. cat., Castello Estense, Ferrara, Bologna 1985, pp. 207-08, no. 66, reproduced in black and white on p. 17; . A. Ballarin in Da Biduino ad Algardi, Pittura e scultura a confronto , G. Romano (ed.), exh. cat., Turin 1990, pp. 131 and 133, reproduced in black and white on p. 130; . L. Alberton Vinco da Sesso, Jacopo Bassano, i Dal Ponte: una dinastia di pittori, Opere nel Veneto , Bassano del Grappa 1992, p. 45; . P. Marini in Jacopo Bassano c. 1510-1592 , B.L. Brown and P. Marini (eds), exh. cat., Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa, 5 September - 6 December 1992; and Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 23 January - 25 April 1993, Bologna 1992, cat. no. 41, reproduced in colour on p. 115; . W.R. Rearick, 'Vita ed opere di Jacopo dal Ponte, detto Bassano', in Jacopo Bassano , B.L. Brown and P. Marini (eds), exh. cat., Bologna 1992, pp. CXXIX-CXXX; . W.R. Rearick in La ragione e l'arte. Torquato Tasso e la Repubblica Veneta , G. Da Pozzo (ed.), exh. cat., Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Libreria Sansoviniana, Venice, 10 October - 11 November 1995, u.p.; . A. Ballarin, Jacopo Bassano, Scritti 1964-1995 , V. Romani (ed.), Cittadella 1995, vol. II, pp. 280-81, 331-32, and 376, reproduced in colour, fig. 207; . A. Ballarin, Jacopo Bassano, Tavole , Cittadella 1996, reproduced in colour in vol. III, plate 431, and in black and white in vol. II, figs 895 and 899 (detail of inscription on reverse); . L. Alberton Vinco da Sesso, 'Jacopo Bassano', in The Dictionary of Art , J. Turner (ed.), vol. 3, London 1996, p. 345; . Este à Ferrara, Une renaissance singulière, La cour des Este à Ferrare , J. Bentini and G. Agostini (eds), exh. cat., Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, 3 October 2003 - 11 January 2004, no. 15; . L. Borean, Lettere artistiche del Settecento veneziano. 2. Il carteggio Giovanni Maria Sasso - Abraham Hume , Fonti e documenti per la storia dell'arte veneta, vol. 11, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Verona 2004, p. 55, 171-72, no. 38 (transcription of Sasso's letter to Hume), reproduced on p. 56, fig. 19 and on p. 57, fig. 20 (reverse); . L. Borean, 'Il carteggio di Abraham Hume e Giovanni Maria Sasso. Collezionismo e mercato tra Venezia e Londra alla fine del Settecento', in Il collezionismo a Venezia e nel Veneto ai tempi della Serenissima , Venice, 21-25 September 2003, conference proceedings, B. Aikema, R. Lauber and M. Seidel (eds), Venice 2005, pp. 326 and 338, n. 37, reproduced on p. 325, figs 7 and 8. . . .; and art.. , June 1846, no. 67 (as Bassan); . Ferrara, Castello Estense, Torquato Tasso tra letteratura, musica, teatro e arti figurative , 6 September - 15 November 1985, no. 66, reproduced in black and white on p. 17; . Bassano del Grappa, Museo Civico, Jacopo Bassano c. 1510-1592 , 5 September - 6 December 1992, no. 41; . Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Libreria Sansoviniana, Torquato Tasso e la Repubblica Veneta , G. Da Pozzo (ed.), 10 October - 11 November 1995, u.n.; . Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts, Este à Ferrara, Une renaissance singulière, La cour des Este à Ferrare , 3 October 2003 - 11 January 2004, no. 15

Provenance:

Probably Accademia degli Eterei, Padua;. Accademia dei Ricovrati, Padua, after its foundation in 1599; . Cavaliere padovano, who before July 1790 gave it as a gift to . Giovanni Maria Sasso (1742-1803), Venice, by whom given as a gift to . Sir Abraham Hume 1st Bt (1748/9-1838), Wormleybury, Hertfordshire, listed as no. 22 in his collection (as by 'G. Bassan'); . Probably by inheritance to his grandson John Hume Cust, Viscount Alford (1812-1851); . Probably his son John Egerton-Cust, 2nd Earl Brownlow (1842-1867), Ashridge Park, Hertfordshire and Belton House, Lincolnshire; . Probably his brother, Adelbert, 3rd and last Earl of Brownlow (1844-1921), but not included in his sales at Christie's, London, 4-7 May 1923 and 3 May 1929; . Hans Wendland (1880-1965), Lugano; . His sale, Berlin, Ball-Graupe, 24 April 1931, lot 7, reproduced pl. 3, for 500 Reichsmark (unsold); . Offered at Fischer in Zurich, 28 May 1932, lot 1135 (unsold); . Confiscated from Wendland by the Office Suisse de Compensation, service de la liquidation des biens allemands, circa 1947; . Presumably cleared for return and given back to Wendland by the Office Suisse de Compensation at an unknown date after 1947; . Probably acquired from the above by the father of the present owner; . Thence by descent