Oil painting on canvas. The great work is part of a series of paintings called 'del Flood', which refer to the biblical history of Noah, made by Jacopo Bassano and his workshop from the seventies of the sixteenth century. The first floor is animated as in a gender scene by figures engaged in various domestic activities, in particular in the construction of new homes, and surrounded by furniture, furnishings and animals downloaded from the arched ark on Mount Ararat in the background, while only in second Plan is glimpsed the true subject of the work, namely Noah who is kneeling before the altar he built to thank God, demonstrating in the form of a ray of light that pierces the clouds. The first work of Bassano, who passed to auction by Christie's in 1971 and coming from various important English private collections (Stevens, Grindley, Beavan, Hume-Campbell, Gray and Lely collections), compared to the one presented here presents some small differences, especially In the arrangement of objects (in particular of the vasellame in the foreground) and in the poses of the animals (the group in the background in the center). Differences lay for a production of the Bassano shop: it is a typical example of the production of the Veneto master who , in the second half of the sixteenth century he created the genre of the 'biblical-pastoral' scenes, compositions of biblical, evangelical and allegorical subject, set in an rural and pastoral key, which had such luck and requested on the market as necessary a special organization of work necessary divided between the painter and the children, especially Francesco and Leandro, assisted by ranks of Garzoni; The numerous replicas were differentiated in small details precisely to ensure their uniqueness to the client. The original, the work proposed here has a small difference in the size, superior of a few centimeters, but from the observation of the work, which is already Restored, and in particular of the left margin, it is highlighted that in the rioting phase it was 'ironed' by adaptation to the new canvas. The work comes from an important Milanese private collection. It is presented in style frame.
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