A village on market day with poultry and other livestock

Details

Leandro Bassano (Bassano del Grappa 1557-1622 Venice)
A village on market day with poultry and other livestock
oil on canvas
49¾ x 38 in. (125.5 x 96.3 cm.)

Provenance

(Probably) Marchese Girolamo Manfrin (d. 1800/2), Palazzo
Venier, Venice, and by inheritance through Pietro Manfrin to
Giulia-Giovanna Manfrin (d.1848/9), wife of Marchese Giovanni
Battista Plattis, by whom bequeathed jointly to,
Marchese Antonio Maria Plattis and Bortolona Plattis, widow of
Baron Sardagna.
(Presumably) Purchased by a member of the Craig Sellar family,
Ardtornish House, Argyllshire; acquired with Ardtornish House by
the following,
Owen Hugh Smith (1859–1958) in 1930, and by descent to the
present owner.

Literature

Catalogo de Quadri esistenti nella galleria della Nobile Signora Marchesa Manfrin Plattis in Venezia, 1851, no. 20, as ‘Francesco
da Ponte detto il Bassan Mercato’, as in Stanza K (manuscript).
Catalogo dei quadri existenti nella galleria Manfrin in Venezia, Venice, 1856, no. 423, as ‘Mercato Da Ponte item [Tela] Larghezza 95 Cent. Altezza 1 Metri. 32 Cent.’ .

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Lot Essay

The Manfrin Collection was formed by Marchese Girolamo Manfrin who acquired the former Palazzo Venier on the Cannaregio, Venice, in 1787 and purchased more than 450 pictures on the advice of Pietro Edwards and Giovanni Battista Mignardi (see F. Haskell, Patrons and Painters, London, 1963, pp. 379-81). The Palazzo became one of the sights of Venice and Byron, among others, visited the collection.

Professor Ballarin (email of 10 November 2008) catalogued this as an early work of circa 1580-81 by Leandro Bassano, painted when he was still in his father’s workshop and before his move to Venice.

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