Bust-Length Study of a Bearded Man with Cap in Three-Quarter View, 1510?92, Pastel and charcoal on blue paper, 5 1/4 x 4 1/2in. (13. 3 x 11. 4cm), Drawings, Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) (Italian, Bassano del Grappa ca. 1510?1592 Bassano del Grappa), Jacopo Bassano was among the most innovative painters at the end of the sixteenth century. This intimate portraitlike study in color is a textbook example of Bassano's celebrated naturalism and dazzlingly economic pastel technique