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image of The Miraculous Draught of Fishes
Jacopo Bassano (painter)
Italian, c. 1510 - 1592
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, 1545
oil on canvas
Overall: 143.5 x 243.7 cm (56 1/2 x 95 15/16 in.) framed: 152.2 x 277.5 x 11.9 cm (59 15/16 x 109 1/4 x 4 11/16 in.)
Patrons' Permanent Fund
1997.21.1
On View
From the Tour: Venetian Painting in the Later Sixteenth Century
Object 6 of 7

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Commissioned 1545 in Bassano by Pietro Pizzamano, Venice. Possibly private collection, Rome.[1] Private collection, London, by 1989; sold 1997 through (Matthiesen Gallery, London) to NGA.

[1] According to Patrick Matthiesen (letter of 12 September 1996 to Alan Shestack, copy in NGA curatorial files).

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