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| Artist | After Bassano, Francesco, II (Italian painter, 1549-1592) |
| Title | Winter |
| Date earliest | about 1570 |
| Date latest | about 1600 |
| Material | oil on canvas |
| Measurements | 116.2 x 142.4 cm |
| Description | Winter is part of The Four Seasons, one of the most successful series produced by the famous Bassano workshop. The compositions originated with Jacopo Bassano (1505-1592) who, 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). Many versions of the series exist, produced in the Bassano workshop, where the production of copies/variations of popular works was common practice. This work can be considered as one of the workshop versions. Based on the style and quality of Winter, it does not seem to be by Francesco but possibly by one of the other brothers. |
| Subject | allegory (season); figure; animal |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum |
| Current accession number | 178 |
| Acquisition details | Bequeathed by Archibald McLellan 1854. |
| Principal publications | 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; W.R. Rearick, ‘Jacopo Bassano’s Later Genre Paintings’, Burlington Magazine, May 1968, p. 241-9; 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, p. 27, fig. 23, p. 28, fig.24 (detail of fig.23); |
| 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, Spring, Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, n.179; after Francesco Bassano (Francesco da Ponte) the younger, 1549-1592, Italian - Venetian, Autumn, Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, n.180; |
| Rights status | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) |
| Author | Dr Erma Hermens |
