Park Scene, Ladies Bathing
Joseph Frans Nollekens (Antwerp 1706 - London 1748)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1726 - 1748
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
617 x 741 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485108
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Park Scene, Ladies Bathing by Joseph Frans Nollekens (Antwerp 1706 - London 1748). A scene in a parkland with eight ladies around a pond fed by a Putto fountain on the left. Two ladies are conversing on the left, the remaining six ladies, are one the right, two are bathing their legs in the pond, one is drying the legs of another, the fifth stands behind these four holding a large pale brown towel and the sixth is seated on the bank at the far left of the group. Trees on the right and left on which an awning of a pink drape is tied, behind it is a large classical building, and to the left at the end of the pond is a distant horizon with a cloudy blue sky.
Provenance
By descent, (until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-1972) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by HMTreasury); on loan from the Egremont Private Collection
Credit line
Petworth House, The Egremont Collection
Makers and roles
Joseph Frans Nollekens (Antwerp 1706 - London 1748), artist