.jpg?maxwidth=3840)
Lot 138 PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION (LOTS 116 & 138)
Leandro Bassano (Bassano del Grappa 1557-1622 Venice)
December: A village in winter with figures slaughtering a pig, others by a fire in a cottage, with snow-covered mountains in the distance
Closed9 July 2014
Price Realised
GBP 25,000
More Information
Specialist note
This composition relates to a cycle of the months painted by Leandro. Pictures belonging to a similar cycle were formerly in the collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria and are now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (Die Gemäldegalerie des kunsthistorischen Museums in Wien, Vienna, 1991, pl. 92). The 'EQVES' in the signature refers to the knighthood conferred on the artist by the Doge Marino Grimani (1532-1605) in 1595.