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| Artist | Attributed to manner of Bassano, Francesco, II (Italian painter, 1549-1592) |
| Title | Autumn |
| Date earliest | 1570 |
| Date latest | about 1600 |
| Material | oil on canvas |
| Measurements | 116.1 x 140.9 cm |
| Description | Jacopo Bassano, after studying in Venice, returned to his native town of Bassano and ran a very productive workshop with the increasing help of his sons Francesco the Younger (1549-92), Giovanni Battista (1553-1613), Leandro (1557-1622), and Gerolamo (1566-1621). Summer belongs to theFour Seasons series which, with other series such as the Elements and the Story of Noah, originated with Jacopo. The Four Seasons all show busy scenes with typical seasonal activities going on in the foreground, set against a landscape background and signs of the Zodiac in the sky indicating the season. Many versions of the series exist, produced in the Bassano workshop, where the production of copies of popular works was common practice. This work seems by Leandro's hand. |
| Subject | allegory (season); figure; animal |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum |
| Current accession number | 180 |
| Acquisition details | Bequeathed by Archibald McLellan 1854. |
| Principal publications | W.R. Rearick, ‘Jacopo Bassano’s Later Genre Painting’, Burlington Magazine, May 1968, p. 241-9; Catalogue of Italian Paintings with which is included a small group of Spanish Pictures, Illustrations, Introduction by George Buchanan, Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, 1970, p. 32, repr. b/w; A. Wharf, ‘The Bassano Family: Renaissance Painters with an eye for Tools and Trades’, Tools and Trades, The Journal of the Tool and Trades History Society, vol.11, June 1999; |
| Notes |
Related works: after Francesco Bassano (Francesco da Ponte) the younger, 1549 - 1592, Italian - Venetian, Summer, Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, n.177; after Francesco Bassano (Francesco da Ponte) the younger, 1549 - 1592, Italian - Venetian, Winter, Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, n.178; after Francesco Bassano (Francesco da Ponte) the younger, 1549 - 1592, Italian - Venetian, Spring, Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, n.179; Francesco Bassano, 1548-1591, Italian - Venetian, Autumn, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; |
| Rights status | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) |
| Author | Dr Erma Hermens |
