La precoce diffusione delle opere dei Bassano in Francia

The Early Dissemination of Works by the Bassano Family in France. This article examines several early accounts of the reputation of the Bassano in France, drawn from documents that have already published but remain little known or not fully understood : these include Jacopo Bassano's life written by Karel van Mander (1604) for example, which mentions the presence of some of his large-scale canvases at the French court, and Vincenzo Giustiniani's travel journal (1606), which describes a gallery and a camerino adorned with paintings by the Bassano in the house of Girolamo Gondi in Paris. These accounts are complemented by further evidence, such as Jean-Baptiste du Val's description of his visit to Leandro Bassano's studio in Venice (1609) and the reference to numerous Works by the Bassano family in Sébastien Zamet's inventory (1614). All of these elements allow us to reconstruct the reception of works by the Bassano family in France, an aspect hitherto overlooked by scholars.