At Work
unknown (Venetian School)
Basic information
- ID
- Ж-185
- Author
- unknown (Venetian School)
- Name
- At Work
- Date of creation
- 17th c.
- Technique
- oil painting
- Material
- canvas oil
- Dimensions (height x width, cm)
- 76.5 x 64.5
Additionally
- Type
- painting
- Genre
- religious
- Plot
- Fragment of Jacopo Bassano's composition "The Ark"
- Provenance
- Collection of Leon Pininski
- Exposition
- Potocki Palace
Information about author
Object description
The painting depicts men at work. On the right, one is kneeling and sawing a wooden beam. A woman stands next to him, holding a bundle of wood pieces. Behind her, a second carpenter is standing on a ladder, hammering a nail into a roof board. On the left is a figure of a leaning man, with his back turned to the viewer, wearing a red hat with a feather and a white belted shirt with a sleeve hanging down. This fragment of the artwork stylistically and compositionally resembles a fragment of "The Ark" by Jacopo Bassano. His students and later followers most replicated this scene. Jacopo Bassano (1510–1592) was a representative of the Venetian School of Italian Renaissance artists. He worked in the genre of religious painting, illustrating his canvases with specific details of sixteenth-century Italian life. The artist often incorporated landscapes and animals into his artworks; his imagery is vivid and tangible. According to research, his studio frequently repeated a four-part series dedicated to the Flood: "Construction of Noah's Ark", "Animals Entering Noah's Ark", "The Flood", and "The Sacrifice of Noah". All these paintings were created by Jacopo Bassano during his mature years (1575–1580) and are now kept in the Palace Gallery of Kromeriz Castle in the Czech Republic.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
