Tátrai Vilmos szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 95. (Budapest, 2001)
LICHNER, MAGDOLNA: Additional material to establishing the subject of Jacopo Bassano's Sleeping shepherd
62. Jacopo Bassano: Jacob's Journey, c. 1560. Hampton Court, The Royal Collection the pictures of spring and summer, the figure of the shearer 13 make this assumption quite plausible, and in several cases some graphic pieces executed in the 1520s and 1530s by Titian and his followers can be thought of as mediators. 14 In spite of the above said I don't agree with Rearick with respect to the subject matter of the Budapest painting. The mere fact that Jacopo Bassano painted any picture representing seasons or months is attested by Ridolfi, who wrote about a sequence of months sent to Rudolph II 15 This latter can't be, however, identified with any of the known pictures, it might 13 Breviárium Grimani, Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, Ms. lat. XI. 67 (7531 ), April, May and September, April, March and October, July in full page. 14 In the case of the goat grazing the foliage W.R. Rearick, for istance, alluded to the motif of 'ardita capra'. Rearick loc. cit. (note 1) 72-73; Chastel, A., Fables, formes, figures, I-II, Flammarion Coll. "Idées recherches", Paris 1978, 253-257; the motif has many known variants in the works by Titian and his circle: Drawing of a Goat Grazing the Foliage c. 1520-25 (Firenze, Uffizi), Wethey op.cit. (note 9.) cat. 27X, pict. 83; from the same period an original piece, the above mentioned Shepherd Asleep with His Flock in Alpine Setting; a woodcut by Domenico Campagnola dated to 1530-35 that shows two goats grazing the leaves of a tree (Vienna, Graphische Sammlung Albertina); woodcut by Andrea Meldola called Schiavone: Moses and the Burning Bush (Vienna, Graphische Sammlung Albertina) and, last but not least, Titian's painting from old age: Shepherd and Nymph (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum). 15 Le maraviglie dell'arte ovvero le vite degli illustri pittori veneti e dello stato descritti da Carlo Ridolfi, Venezia 1648; 2nd impr. ed. von Hadéin, D. Berlin 1914-24, 386. The pictures hadn't arrived at Prague by 1581, Reariçk loc. cit. (note 1) 147.
