Attributed to Leandro da Ponte, called Bassano (Bassano del Grappa 1557-1622 Venice)
Attributed to Leandro da Ponte, called Bassano (Bassano del Grappa 1557-1622 Venice)

Portrait of a young gentleman, three-quarter-length, in an embroidered black doublet with gold buttons, doffing his hat in salute

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Attributed to Leandro da Ponte, called Bassano (Bassano del Grappa 1557-1622 Venice)
Portrait of a young gentleman, three-quarter-length, in an embroidered black doublet with gold buttons, doffing his hat in salute
oil on canvas
43 x 36.5/8 in. (110.5 x 93 cm.)
Provenance
with Dowdeswell, London, as G.B. Moroni.
Baron Paget (according to information on the mount in the Witt Library).
Literature
K. Asplund ed., Collection de Peintures et de Sculptures appartenant M. le Consul Gnral et Madame Carl Bergsten, Stockholm, I, 1943, no. 2, as Leandro Bassano.

Lot Essay

Professor Ballarin, on the basis of a photograph, does not think that the portrait should be attributed to a member of the Bassano family, and suggested that an attribution to Felice Brusasorci might be considered.

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