Diana with Cupids at the Bath
attributed to Charles Lucy (London 1692 - ?Rome after 1768)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1758 - 1760
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
481 x 648 mm (17 3/4 x 25 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Rome
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Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533913
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, Diana with Cupids at the Bath, attributed to Charles Lucy (fl. Rome 1758), in the manner of Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787), 1758/60. A female figure, Diana, in a landscape setting. There is a large tree behind her and hills in the distance. Diana is dressed in a gold dress with a large pink shawl. She is wearing a headdress and is holding a spear. She is dipping her right foot into a small pool at the centre of the painting. To her left is a cupid on one knee, running water through his fingers. To her right is another cupid, standing, holding the leads of two dogs (one black, the other brown) in his right hand and is gesturing to Diana. In carved giltwood frame. A pair with Venus and Three Cupids in a Landscape (NT 533912).
Provenance
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. On loan from Sir Edmund Fairfax-Lucy, 6th Bt (b. 1945)
Makers and roles
attributed to Charles Lucy (London 1692 - ?Rome after 1768), publisher manner of Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787), publisher French School, publisher