Scipio Africanus the Younger contemplating the Tomb of Scipio Africanus the Elder
manner of Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1682 - 1749
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
838 x 1067 mm (33 x 42 in)
Order this imageCollection
Hinton Ampner, Hampshire
NT 1530097
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Scipio Africanus the Younger contemplating the Tomb of Scipio Africanus the Elder, manner of Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749). An unusual subject, showing the younger Scipio, who completed the Roman defeat and destruction of Carthage, and was himself subsequently forced into retirement, contemplating the tomb of his adoptive grandfather, inscribed with the words INGRATIA PATRIA (ungrateful country). For despite his decisive defeat of Hannibal at the Battle of Zama, the elder Scipio was later exiled to his country seat of Liternum, and so gave orders that he should be buried there rather than, as he merited, in Rome.
Provenance
Bequeathed by Ralph Dutton, 8th Lord Sherborne (1898–1985)
Credit line
Hinton Ampner, The Ralph Dutton Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
manner of Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749) , artist