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Cleopatra, Mark Antony and the Pearl

Giovanni Battista Pittoni the younger (Venice 1687 - Venice 1767)

Basildon Park © National Trust

Basildon Park © National Trust / Thomas Boggis

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Category

Art / Oil paintings

Date

1736 - 1799

Materials

Oil on canvas (oval)

Measurements

1375 x 1015 mm

Place of origin

Venice

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Collection

Basildon Park, Berkshire (Accredited Museum)

On show at

Octagon Drawing Room, Basildon Park House, Basildon Park, West Berkshire, London and South East, National Trust

NT 266903

Caption

Queen Cleopatra holds a banquet to which Mark Antony is invited. When he expresses surprise at how lavish the banquet is, Cleopatra dissolves a priceless pearl in a glass of wine and drinks it to demonstrate her indifference to riches. In Pittoni's painting, Mark Antony, wearing armour and a red cloak, holds the bowl into which the fair-skinned Cleopatra is about to drop the pearl.

Summary

Oil painting on canvas (oval), Cleopatra, Mark Antony and the Pearl by Giovanni Battista Pittoni (1687-1767). late 1730s. Cleopatra on left with pale blue dress and yellow cloak, looks at pearl held up in left hand. Antony in armour, helmet and red cloak proffers a dish, with pleading look. Page at bottom left holds out salver and looks back, while spectator on right regards pearl. Moulded gilt frame. Pair to NT/BAS/P/16.

Provenance

Brunner Gallery, Paris 1921; possibly Baron M. Lazzaroni, Nice, 1933; Pardo, 1951; Colnaghi, 1962; presented by Lord and Lady Iliffe to the National Trust, together with the house and grounds of Basildon Park, and a substantial part of their collection of paintings, in 1979

Credit line

Basildon Park, The Iliffe Collection (National Trust)

Makers and roles

Giovanni Battista Pittoni the younger (Venice 1687 - Venice 1767) , artist

References

Boccazzi 1978 F. Zara Boccazzi, Pittoni, 1978, no. 269, pp. 186-87

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