Jacopo Da Ponte, Bassano Del Grappa 1510 – 1592 - Grape Harvest Scene With Peasants

The painting depicts a lively episode of peasant life: men, women, and children busy pressing grapes and harvesting fruit. The scene is set in a hilly landscape with rural houses and domestic animals, according to the typical iconography of the Bassano school. The careful rendering of tools, baskets, and everyday gestures, combined with the warm light that illuminates the colors of the clothes and objects, closely recalls the style of Jacopo Bassano and his sons, who spread this genre throughout northern Italy and Europe. Circle of Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte, Bassano del Grappa 1510 – 1592) and workshop, the painting is enhanced by an 18th-century gilded wooden frame and has an old relining.