Leandro da Ponte, called Leandro Bassano (1557-1622)

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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Leandro da Ponte, called Leandro Bassano (1557-1622)

Orpheus charming the Animals

signed 'LEANDER PONTE B. EQUE.'

38½ x 55 3/8in. (98 x 140.8cm.)

Provenance

(Possibly) The Duke of Buckingham, Stowe House, Buckinghamshire;
Christie's (on the premises), 13 Sept. 1848 (= 22nd. day), lot 154 'Bassano - Orpheus charming the brutes. A curious picture, in which the artist seems to have included nearly the whole of the animal creation, all listening in the most ingenious variety of attitudes' (16gns. to Goslett)

Lot Essay

A picture of this (or a closely related) composition was in the collection of the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, Governor of the Netherlands 1646-56, at the Palais de Coudenburg at Brussels, where it was copied by David Teniers the Younger and engraved (in reverse) by Nikolaus van Hoy for the Theatrum Pictorium Davidis Teniers published in 1658.

Leandro Bassano was knighted by Doge Grimani after painting his portrait and thereafter added the title 'eques' to his signature

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