(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.