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LICHNER, MAGDOLNA: Additional material to establishing the subject of Jacopo Bassano's Sleeping shepherd
59. Jacopo Bassano: Sleeping Shepherd, c. 1568. Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts Netherlands, well known also in Venice 6 (fig. 74) He also mentions the figure of the milkmaid in the Washington composition entitled The Annunciation to the Shepherds 7 (Picture 9.) which also can be traced back to the miniatures in the renown calendar. As Rearick, based on researches by B. W. Meijer, states it, in both cases some drawings by Titian 8 could play an intermediary role 9 (fig. 61). The possibility of mediation is 6 Rearick loc. cit. (note 1) 126-127; Rearick, W.R. From Arcady to the Barnyard, in The Pastoral Landscape. Studies in the History of Art. 36. Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. Symposium Papers XX. ed. John Dixon Hunt, Hannover, London 1992, 137-159. 7 c. 1558, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection, inv.nr. 1939.1.126. 8 Shepherd Asleep with His Flock in an Alpine Setting, c. 1520-1525, Paris, Louvre, Département des Arts Graphiques, inv.nr. 5534, published by Wethey, H.E., Titian and His Drawings. With Reference to Giorgione and Some Close Contemporaries, Princeton, 1987, cat. 45. pict.82. Landscape with Milkmaid and Youth Sowing, Paris, Louvre, inv.nr. 5573. Wethey op. cit. cat. X-20 pict.92, the latter was the model for a woodcut by Boldrini, ca. 1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Rosenwald Collection, Wethey op.cit. pict. 92. Wethey supposes that it is an original drawing by Titian and dates it to ca. 1530, to my opinion it was drawn before 1528, Rearick loc. cit. (note 1) 153. derives it from the years 1520-25, with reference to: Rosand, D. - Muraro, M., Titian and the Venetian Woodcut. Washington 1976, pp. 140-145. 9 Meijer, B.W. Titian en het Breviárium Grimani, mRelations Artistiques entre les Pays-Bas et L'Italie à la Renaissance. Études dédiées à Suzanne Sulzberger, Bruxelles-Rome 1980, 179-183; Meijer, B. W., Fiamminghi a Venezia nel prima Cinquecento, in Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo tra Foppa Giorgione e Caravaggio, Milan 1990, 78-86; Rembrandt en het Titian, ed. Meijer, B.W., Amsterdam 1992, 35-37.
