Adoration of the Shepherds
Adoration of the Shepherds
- Artist
- Francesco Bassano II
- Artist Dates
- 1549-1592
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Adoration of the Shepherds
- Date
- c. 1580
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 92.7 x 132.1 cm (37 x 52 in)
- K Number
- K105
- Repository
- Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
- Accession Number
- 1934.001
- Notes
Provenance
(Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955] Rome-Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 16 July 1930; gift 1934 to the Arkansas Arts Center, no. 1.34.
Catalogue Entry
Francesco Bassano II
Adoration of the Shepherds
K105
Little Rock, Ark., Arkansas Arts Center (1.34), since 1934. Canvas. 36 1/2 X 52 in. (92.7 X 132.1 cm.). Good condition; some restorations. Jacopo Bassano's Adoration of the Shepherds of about 1570/75 in the Galleria Nazionale, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, served as model for most of this composition, and attempts have been made to identify the painter as one of Jacopo's sons.(1) Of the two proposed, Leandro seems less likely than Francesco (about 1580), whose signed Last Supper in the Prado, Madrid, offers the closest parallels, perhaps, for the figures in K105. Provenance: Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1930 – exhibited: 'Italian Paintings Lent by Mr. Samuel H. Kress,' Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 1932, through Salt Lake City, Sept. 1933; 'Religion in Paintings,' Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Ark., Dec. 7, 1963 - Jan. 30, 1964, no. 26, as Francesco Bassano.
References
(1) K105 as been attributed to Francesco Bassano by G. Fiocco, R. Longhi, F. M. Perkins tentatively, W. E. Suida, and A. Venturi (in ms. opinions); to Leandro Bassano by B. Berenson (Italian Pictures ... Venetian School, vol. I, 1957 p. 23); and to an unidentified hand, but not Leandro's, by E. Arslan (I Bassano, vol. I, 1960, p. 349).