# Little Girl Carrying a Basket [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BASSANO, Leandro]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Pastel on burnished blue paper, 304 x 130 mm ## Commentary Little Girl Carrying a Basket c. 1594 Pastel on burnished blue paper, 304 x 130 mm Musée du Louvre, Paris This drawing is study for a large composition \(destroyed in 1943\) for the refectory of the abbey of Montecassino, the Miracle of the Loaves and the Fishes. Originally Francesco Bassano, the elder brother of Leandro, had been commissioned for the painting in 1591, but Leandro took over the project after Francesco committed suicide in 1592. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Dives and Lazarus \(detail\)]() - [Dives and Lazarus]() - [Doge Marcantonio Memmo]() - [Honorius III Approving the Rule of St Dominic in 1216]() - [Moses Striking the Rock]() - [Penelope]() - [Portrait of a Widow at her Devotions]() - [Portrait of an Old Man]() - [Portrait of Tiziano Aspetti holding a statuette]() - [Small Market \(detail\)]() - [Small Market \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()