Amorini Dancing (after a Marcantonio Engraving supposedly after Raphael)
after Raphael (Urbino 1483 – Rome 1520)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1799
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
305 x 749 mm (12 x 29 1/2 in)
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 609029
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Amorini Dancing, after Raphael (Urbino 1483 – Rome 1520), 18th century. Nine amorini dancing in a circle, one at left playing a virginal beneath a dead tree hung with a quiver of arrows; one to the right playing on pipes. Companion to 'Apollo and the Muses' (NT 609020).
Provenance
Attingham collection. 1847 Catalogue of Paintings, p.20; 1861 Inventory p.225; 1913 Inventory p.63; bequeathed to the National Trust with the estate, house and contents of Attingham by Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick (1877-1947) on 15th May 1953.
Credit line
Attingham Park, The Berwick Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
On reverse of panel (top): 93 On reverse of panel (bottom): 107 (ink on Boots label) 33 On reverse of panel (bottom): att/P/093 On reverse of frame (top): 93 (twice) On reverse of frame (bottom): ATT/P/093
Makers and roles
after Raphael (Urbino 1483 – Rome 1520), artist