Workshop of Jacopo Bassano

Workshop of means a picture came out of a master's studio, painted by assistants on his models, and here the studio was a family. Jacopo da Ponte, called Bassano after his small home town in the Veneto, ran the shop with his sons Francesco, Leandro, Giovanni Battista and Gerolamo, and together they turned biblical stories into country scenes crowded with animals, repeated in many versions for collectors.

In Noah's Sacrifice, from around 1574, the thanksgiving after the Flood takes place far back, beyond two huts going up, while the foreground belongs to the animals and to part of Noah's family. Other versions are in Potsdam, Liverpool, Madrid and Kroměříž. Scholars have divided it among the sons, Francesco for Roberto Longhi and later Alessandro Ballarin, Leandro for Edoardo Arslan, Gerolamo for Kristina Herrmann Fiore in 2006. It came to the Borghese from the Aldobrandini inheritance and is now on deposit at Palazzo Chigi in Rome.