Venus and Three Cupids in a Landscape
attributed to Charles Lucy (London 1692 - ?Rome after 1768)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1758 - 1760
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
451 x 648 mm (17 3/4 x 25 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533912
Caption
Charles Lucy was a pupil of Cignani (1628-1719), a Bolognese, Baroque artist and a cousin of the Lucy family of Charlecote. He worked mostly in Rome. He undertook to make various copies and pastiches of Old Masters for George Lucy (1714-86), who had visited Rome whilst on his Grand Tour. It appears that George Lucy was also paying him an annual grant.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Venus and Three Cupids in a Landscape, attributed to Charles Lucy (fl. Rome 1758), in the manner of Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787), 1758/60. A female figure reclining in a landscape setting, there is a large tree to the left with hills in the background. Venus is dressed in white and blue robes and is leaning on a red cushion with an amphora beside her. Her right foot is dipped into a small pool of water. She is holding two arrows aloft in her left hand. There is a cupid to her right also holding an arrow and to his left is a quiver full of arrows. To the right of Venus are two cupids holding two white doves in flight. In a carved giltwood frame. A pair with ‘Diana with Cupids at the Bath’ (NT 533913).
Provenance
On loan from Sir Edmund Fairfax-Lucy, 6th Bt (b. 1945) Presented to the National Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy (1896 – 1965), two years after the death of his father, Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1944), with Charlecote Park and its chief contents, in 1946.
Makers and roles
attributed to Charles Lucy (London 1692 - ?Rome after 1768), artist manner of Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787), artist French School, artist