The Head of Saint Apollonia
manner of Pietro Perugino (Città della Pieve c.1450 – Fontignano 1523)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1500 - 1599
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
343 x 267 mm (13 1/2 x 10 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Bologna
Order this imageCollection
Ascott Estate, Buckinghamshire
NT 1535164
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Head of Saint Apollonia, manner of Perugino (Citta della Pieve c.1450 – Fontignano 1523). A young girl facing the spectator, her head inclined to the right. The head of Saint Apollonia derives from Perugino's 'Virgin and Child with Saints Michael the Archangel, Catherine of Alexandria, Apollonia and John the Baptist in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna. The altarpiece, which is signed, came originally from the Capella Scarani in San Giovanni in Monte in Bologna and was painted in around 1497.
Provenance
Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea (1843 - 1907) in 1893; his wife, Constance de Rothschild, Lady Battersea (1843-1931) - daughter of Sir Anthony de Rothschild, 1st Bt; thence by descent to Anthony de Rothschild (1887- 1961) by whom given to the National Trust with the house in 1949
Credit line
Ascott, The Anthony de Rothschild Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
manner of Pietro Perugino (Città della Pieve c.1450 – Fontignano 1523), artist
References
Ascott, Buckinghamshire, Scala, 2008 by John Martin Robinson and others [pictures entries by Karin Wolfe on basis of Gore entries, 1963 with contributions from Alastair Laing] , no. 132