Saint Martin Dividng His Cloak with a the Beggar
Saint Martin Dividng His Cloak with a the Beggar
- Artist
- Studio of Jacopo Bassano
- Artist Dates
- c. 1510-1592
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Saint Martin Dividng His Cloak with a the Beggar
- Date
- c. 1580
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 99.4 x 85.8 cm (39-1/8 x 33-3/4 in)
- K Number
- K1794
- Repository
- Sheldon Museum of Art
- Accession Number
- U-362.1962
- Notes
Provenance
(Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955] Rome-Florence); sold to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation on 1 July 1950 as Jacopo Bassano; gift to the Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in 1962, no. U-362-K.
Catalogue Entry
Studio of Jacopo Bassano
Saint Martin Dividng His Cloak with a the Beggar
K1794
Lincoln, Nebr., University of Nebraska, Study Collection (U-362-K), since 1962. Canvas. 39 1/8 x 33 3/4 in. (99.4 x 85.8 cm.). Fair condition except for slight abrasion in face of saint. The hand of a Baroque painter of the seventeenth century would seem to be indicated in this copy of one of Jacopo Bassano's important paintings, of about 1580, in the Museo Civico, Bassano.(1) The contrasts of light and shade in the original are here exaggerated, the armored saint displays the bravura of a bravo by Pietro della Vecchia, and his horse seems related to the van Dyck or Rubens breed. Gerolamo Bassano used his father Jacopo's group of the saint and beggar in his altarpiece of the Madonna in Glory with Sts. Lucy and Martin in Campese.(2) Provenance: Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1950.
References
(1) The painting by Jacopo is reproduced by E. Arslan, I Bassano, vol. II, 1960, figs. 182 f. KI794 is listed tentatively by Arslan, vol. I, p. 358, as a seventeenth-century copy of the painting in Bassano. (2) Reproduced by W. R. Rearick, in Arte Veneta, vol. XXI, 1967, p. 104, fig. 117.