Details
Studio of Jacopo Bassano (Bassano del Grappa c. 1510-1592)
The Annunciation to the Shepherds
oil on canvas
50½ x 46 7/8 in. (128.3 x 119 cm.)
Provenance
Goudstikker Collection, Amsterdam, no. 2483, whence acquired in July 1940 through a forced sale by Field Marshall Hermann Göring.
Private Corporate Collection, Austria; Christie's, London, 9 December 1988, lot 18 (sold £15,000).
Subsequently restituted, 23 May 2003, to the heir of J. Goudstikker and Amsterdamse Negotiatie Compagnie N.V., f/k/a Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker N.V.
Literature
L. Fröhlich-Bum, 'Neu aufgetauchte Gemälde Jacopo Bassanos', Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, IV, 1930, p. 243, fig. 254, as Francesco Bassano.
R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, XVII, The Hague, 1935, p. 400, as Jacopo Bassano.
E. Arslan, I Bassano, Milan, 1960, I, p. 327.
A. Ballarin, Jacopo Bassano, I, Padua, 1995, p. 368; II, 1996, p. 13, fig. 681.
Special notice
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Sale room notice
Please note the amended provenance:
Goudstikker Collection, Amsterdam, no. 2483, whence acquired in July 1940 through a forced sale by Field Marshall Hermann Göring.
Private Corporate Collection, Austria; Christie's, London, 9 December 1988, lot 18 (sold £15,000).
Subsequently restituted, 23 May 2003, to the heir of J. Goudstikker and Amsterdamse Negotiatie Compagnie N.V., f/k/a Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker N.V.
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