December: A village in winter with figures slaughtering a pig, others by a fire in a cottage, with snow-covered mountains in the distance

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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
signed 'LEANDER A PONTE / [B]AS.. EQVES' (lower left)
oil on canvas
36¼ x 51 1/8 in. (92 x 129.9 cm.)

Provenance

Dr. Hans Finsterer (1977-1955), Vienna.

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Lot Essay

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.

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