Plaster cast of servants at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis.
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1800 - 1825
Materials
Plaster, painted
Measurements
500 x 480 mm
Order this imageCollection
Knole, Kent
NT 128697
Summary
A man walks with the carcass of a calf on his shoulder, behind him is a woman with a rabbit hanging from a pole, holding a dead pig in her right hand. These are servants bringing food to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis and is a copy of a first century terracotta tile in the Campana Collection at the Louvre (Cp 4170). It belongs to the same series as the plaster cast (NT. 128693) in the Knole Collection.
Provenance
Possibly acquired by Charles, 1st Earl of Whitworth (1752-1825)
Credit line
National Trust Collections (Knole, The Sackville Collection)