BASSANO, Jacopo
(b. ca. 1515, Bassano, d. 1592, Bassano)

The Good Thief on the Cross

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Pastel over charcoal on blue paper, 530 x 369 mm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

This is a preparatory drawing for a fresco that Bassano painted in the church of Cartigliano. Cartigliano is a village north of Bassano, the city by which the entire dynasty of artists are known.