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Jacopo Bassano: Portrait of a Franciscan Friar  wikidata:Q118868252 reasonator:Q118868252
Artist
Jacopo Bassano  (1510–1592)  wikidata:Q346502 q:it:Jacopo Bassano
 
Jacopo Bassano
Alternative names
Jacopo Bassano, Jacopo dal Ponte
Description Italian painter
Date of birth/death circa 1510/15 14 February 1592 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bassano del Grappa Edit this at Wikidata Bassano del Grappa Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Bassano, Venedig
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artist QS:P170,Q346502
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Title
Portrait of a Franciscan Friar
label QS:Len,"Portrait of a Franciscan Friar"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: In this imposing portrait, Jacopo Bassano applies a vigorous and sharply focused naturalism to portray the distinctive features as well as the spiritual temperament and preoccupations of an unidentified Franciscan friar.

The skull, a reminder of the vanity of earthly life, supports the contemplative aspect of the friar’s piety, and the pen holder that hangs from the rope at his waist attests to his learning. A sensitive colorist, Jacopo creates a rich tonal range, contrasting the cool gray of the wool habit with the warm flesh areas, which derive luminosity from the reflection of the white ground through the glazes.

Portraits of Franciscans, who avow humility in a life devoted to prayer and penance, are not common. This early work is datable to around the time that Jacopo painted the Saint Anne altarpiece (1541, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, on deposit in the Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa) for the church of the reformed Franciscans in Asolo; possibly the sitter was one of its members.

Portrait of a Franciscan Friar, which once belonged to the Marquess of Lansdowne, is one of three works in the Kimbell from the Earl of Shelburne’s historic collection in Bowood House, Wiltshire. The others are Domenichino’s Abraham Leading Isaac to Sacrifice and Jacob van Ruisdael’s Rough Sea at a Jetty.

(SOURCE: KIMBELL ART MUSEUM)
Date circa 1540–42
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 31 11/16 x 27 3/16 in. (80.5 x 69 cm); Framed: 48 3/4 x 44 3/4 x 3 5/8 in. (123.8 x 113.7 x 9.2 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q1741629
Current location
Kahn Building, South Gallery
Accession number
AP 1997.02
Object history

Cristoforo Orsetti [1608-1664], Venice, as Pordenone; by inheritance to his sons, Giovanni Battista, Giovanni, and Salvatore Orsetti, Venice;

Giovanni Battista Orsetti, Venice, 1681; by descent to Salvatore Orsetti [born c. 1744], Venice, to 1803, as Giacomo Bassano. Charles Francis Greville [1749–1809], London; (his sale, Christie’s, London, 31 March 1810, no. 69, as Sebastiano del Piombo); purchased for £75.12 through (Angelo Bonelli) by Henry Petty (later Petty-FitzMaurice) 3rd marquess of Lansdowne [1780-1863], Bowood House, Calne, Wiltshire, England; by inheritance to his son, Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 4th marquess of Lansdowne [1816-1866], Bowood House, Calne, Wiltshire, England; by inheritance to his son, Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th marquess of Lansdowne [1845-1927], Bowood House, Calne, Wiltshire, England, as Sebastiano del Piombo; by inheritance to his son, Henry William Edmond Petty-FitzMaurice, 6th marquess of Lansdowne [1872-1936], Bowood House, Calne, Wiltshire, England, as Giovanni Cariani; by inheritance to his son, Charles Hope Petty-FitzMaurice, 7th marquess of Lansdowne [1917-1944], Bowood House, Calne, Wiltshire, England; by inheritance to his 1st cousin, George John Charles Mercer Nairne Petty-Fitz Maurice [1912-1999], 8th marquess of Lansdowne, Bowood House, Calne, Wiltshire, England, as Cariani; by descent to his son, Charles Maurice Petty-FitzMaurice, earl of Shelburne (later 9th marquess of Lansdowne) [b. 1941], Bowood House, Calne, Wiltshire, England, by 1980, as Jacopo Bassano; purchased through (Simon Dickinson Ltd., London) by Kimbell Art Foundation, Fort Worth, 1997. (SOURCE: KIMBELL ART MUSEUM)
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