Tátrai Vilmos szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 95. (Budapest, 2001)
LICHNER, MAGDOLNA: Additional material to establishing the subject of Jacopo Bassano's Sleeping shepherd
63. Jacopo Bassano: The Meeting of Jacob and Rachel at the Well, c. 1566. Torino, Private collection have been lost, or even Ridolfi might have been simply mistaken, as his information was 60 years belated. The pictures of related subject, now in Vienna and Rome, representing the agrarian works of the year, are attributed by art historians to Francesco and Leandro Bassano, supposing at collaboration from Jacopo, 16 and they could hardly have been executed before the middle 1570s. The authorship of Francesco and Leandro Bassano is further supported by the engravings of Jan and Raphael Sadeler inscribed only as "Bassan pinxit", while with Jacopo's compositions they consistently add the first name as well. 17 From the 1560s on paintings attachable to months or seasons are missing from Jacopo's oeuvre, while scenes representing pastoral episodes from the Old Testament are well known from that period 18 (fig 62-63). It was just then that the artist's invention, so characteristic of 16 For dating and attribution see Ballarin, A.. La vecchiaia di Jacopo Bassano: Le fonti e la eritica (Nota introduttiva alla Chirurgia Bassanesca) con in appendice la ristampa dell'elogio del Marucini e la traduzione italiana della Vita del van Mander, Atti del R. Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti CXXV, 1966-1967, 151-193; Rearick, W.R., Dal Ponte, Jacopo detto Bassano, in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani XXXII. Roma 1986, 181-188. Ballarin, A. Jacopo Bassano 1573-1580, in Jacopo Bassano c. 1510-1592. Fort Worth, Texas 1993, 173-189. The summary of discussion see Vinco da Sesso, in Jacopo Bassano c. 1510-1592. Fort Worth. Texas 1993, 385-388., 404-408., cat. 50-51. 58-59. 17 Pan, E., Jacopo Bassano e l'incisione: La fort una deli arte bassanesca nella grafica di riproduzione dalXVI alXIX secolo, Bassano del Grappa 1992. cat. 1-5, cat. 7-8. 18 See paintings like Jacob's Journey, ca. 1560 (Royal Collection, Hampton Court), The Meeting of Jacob and Rachel at the Well, ca. 1566 (private collection, Torino), and Moses Strikes Water from a Rock (Museo del Prado, Madrid).
