BASSAN (James de Pont), or LE BASSAN, a celebrated Venetian painter, excelled in landscapes and animals. His works are spread all over Europe; many of them were purchased by Titian; and there are several in the French king's cabinet, the royal palace, and the Hotel de Toulouse. He died in 1592, aged 82. — Francis and Leander, his sons, distinguished themselves in the same art; but inheriting a species of lunacy from their mother, both came to an untimely end.