Circle of Jacopo Robusti, called Jacopo Tintoretto

This painting would appear to look to Tintoretto's large Last Supper in the church of San Polo in Venice as its point of departure, with the luminous landscape, upper right, the humble interior setting, the acts of charity depicted, and the general mood of agitation and energy.¹ We are grateful to Dr. Frederick Ilchman for his help in the cataloguing of this lot, and for observing the similarities between this painting and the work of Tintoretto's follower, Antonio Vassilacchi, l'Aliense (1556-1629). 1. See R. Pallucchini and P. Rossi, Tintoretto. Le opere sacre e profane, Milan 1982, vol. I, pp. 194-95, cat. no. 305, reproduced vol. II, p. 489, figs 399 and 400.