Follower of JACOPO BASSANO (Bassano del Grappa, Italy, ca. 1510 - 1592); Spain, 17th century."The Summer.Oil on panel.It presents repuntes and restorations.Measurements: 23,5 x 29,5 cm; 32,5 x 38 cm (frame).In this work, the artist is inspired by the work of Jacopo Bassano's summer, where he presents us a costumbrista scene of great narrative, meticulously described, as an allegory of the summer. This type of allegorical genre painting, which depicts the different works of the different seasons of the year, existed in the Middle Ages, although it was revived in the Baroque period with a new genre vision that emphasised the values of genre painting and left the allegorical character in the background. Jacopo Bassano was a true pioneer in this field, as he was in fact a pioneer of genre painting in general. Thus, in the 16th century he painted works such as the present one, which are clearly genre paintings with a scenographic character in their composition, thus advancing Baroque genre painting by almost a century. Bassano here depicts a broad, richly described setting constructed on various planes of depth, based on a clear, open composition that allows all the scenes depicted to be seen.Jacopo Bassano was one of the great masters of Venetian painting, the son and father of painters and specialised in works, both secular and religious, full of characters and animals of a genre that would herald the creation of this genre in the following century. He was already highly esteemed in his day for his precision and taste for detail in depicting characters, animals and settings. His first dated work dates from 1528 and around 1533 he was already in Venice, where he began to use engravings by Titian, Dürer, Agostino Veneziano and Marcantonio Raimondi for his compositions, interpreting them in his own personal style. The following year he gained access to a more powerful and wealthy clientele through Andrea Navagero, at which point his work began to be more influenced by Raphael, and he moved towards a style closer to Parmigianino and Moretto around 1540.