Die Taufe der hl. Lucilla (nach Giacomo Bassano)

This 1877 copy by August Wolf after Jacopo Bassano's painting of the baptism of Saint Lucilla records one of the lesser-known religious paintings of the Venetian 16th-century tradition. Bassano, known for his robust, earthy treatment of religious subjects populated with animals and peasant figures, created a body of work that was widely admired throughout the 17th century and beyond. Wolf's copy documents a painting that might otherwise be inaccessible to the German audience, and the Bavarian State Painting Collections hold this work alongside other Wolf copies as part of a systematic effort to bring Venetian painting to Munich.

Wolf attempts to capture Bassano's distinctive qualities — his warm, rustic color palette, his vigorous figure types, and the sense of energetic physical reality that distinguishes his religious painting from the more elegant Venetian mainstream.