Follower of Jacopo Bassano Noah's Sacrifice
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Follower of Jacopo Bassano
Noah's Sacrifice
oil on canvas
unframed: 114.2 x 154 cm.; 45 x 60⅝ in.
framed: 138.2 x 180.5 cm.; 54⅜ x 71 in.
Condition Report:
The canvas is lined. The paint surface is relatively clean and the varnish is clear and largely even. No losses to the paint surface can be noted, with the exception of a couple of small spots on the grey sack just right of the veiled woman's head lower left, which appear to have been caused by abrasion. A couple of retouchings are visible to the naked eye in the foliage upper right, on the roof of the wooden shelter on the left, and in the sky. Inspection under ultraviolet light confirms these as retouchings, while revealing more scattered throughout the canvas. These are primarily found in the foliage upper left, over the crouching figure lower left, on the tools and utensils in front of this figure, along the lower margin, in the spaces surrounding the group of animals in the centre, on the body of the black turkey lower right, and on the clothing of the figure climbing a ladder towards the right margin. The largest of these measures approximately 14 x 1.5 cm. The majority of these retouchings have been executed fairly sensitively and are disguised by the darker tones of the painting. Overall, the picture is in fairly good condition. It presents well and is ready to hang.
Catalogue Note:
This painting relates closely to a work in the Galleria Borghese, Rome, attributed to the workshop of Jacopo Bassano.1 Another version, also given to Jacopo's workshop, that is populated by fewer animals, is in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.2
The composition depicts the moment in which Noah has left the ark and renders thanks to God by taking ‘of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offer[ing] burnt offerings on the altar’ (Genesis 8: 20). The scene stretches into the background, beyond the two huts under construction, while the foreground accommodates the animals, as well as part of the elderly patriarch’s family – all those saved from the great Flood.
1 Inv. no. 105; oil on canvas, 135 x 191 cm.; https://www.collezionegalleriaborghese.it/en/opere/noah-s-sacrifice.
2 Inv. no. P000023; oil on canvas, 80 x 113 cm.; https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/noah-after-the-flood/8a95a6e5-e940-494d-b19d-18d44d1e5237.
Provenance:
Private collection, Switzerland;
From whom acquired by the present owner circa 1986.
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Property from a Distinguished European Collection
Follower of Jacopo Bassano
Noah's Sacrifice
oil on canvas
unframed: 114.2 x 154 cm.; 45 x 60⅝ in.
framed: 138.2 x 180.5 cm.; 54⅜ x 71 in.
Condition Report:
The canvas is lined. The paint surface is relatively clean and the varnish is clear and largely even. No losses to the paint surface can be noted, with the exception of a couple of small spots on the grey sack just right of the veiled woman's head lower left, which appear to have been caused by abrasion. A couple of retouchings are visible to the naked eye in the foliage upper right, on the roof of the wooden shelter on the left, and in the sky. Inspection under ultraviolet light confirms these as retouchings, while revealing more scattered throughout the canvas. These are primarily found in the foliage upper left, over the crouching figure lower left, on the tools and utensils in front of this figure, along the lower margin, in the spaces surrounding the group of animals in the centre, on the body of the black turkey lower right, and on the clothing of the figure climbing a ladder towards the right margin. The largest of these measures approximately 14 x 1.5 cm. The majority of these retouchings have been executed fairly sensitively and are disguised by the darker tones of the painting. Overall, the picture is in fairly good condition. It presents well and is ready to hang.
Catalogue Note:
This painting relates closely to a work in the Galleria Borghese, Rome, attributed to the workshop of Jacopo Bassano.1 Another version, also given to Jacopo's workshop, that is populated by fewer animals, is in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.2
The composition depicts the moment in which Noah has left the ark and renders thanks to God by taking ‘of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offer[ing] burnt offerings on the altar’ (Genesis 8: 20). The scene stretches into the background, beyond the two huts under construction, while the foreground accommodates the animals, as well as part of the elderly patriarch’s family – all those saved from the great Flood.
1 Inv. no. 105; oil on canvas, 135 x 191 cm.; https://www.collezionegalleriaborghese.it/en/opere/noah-s-sacrifice.
2 Inv. no. P000023; oil on canvas, 80 x 113 cm.; https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/noah-after-the-flood/8a95a6e5-e940-494d-b19d-18d44d1e5237.
Provenance:
Private collection, Switzerland;
From whom acquired by the present owner circa 1986.
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