LEANDRO DA PONTE, CALLED LEANDRO BASSANO | Annunciation to the Shepherds

Private collection.

This composition was clearly one of Leandro Bassano's most popular, since he repeated it in several versions. The prototype is generally considered to be the signed painting in the Museo Civico, Padua.(1) We are grateful to Professor Alessandro Ballarin for endorsing the attribution to Leandro on the basis of a digital image.

1 See E. Arslan, I Bassano, Milan 1960, vol. I, pp. 240 and 266, reproduced vol. II, fig. 298.