A Pastoral Landscape
Francesco Zuccarelli, RA (Pitigliano 1702 - Florence 1788)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1730 - circa 1745
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1010 x 1340 mm (39 3/4 x 52 3/4 in)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire (Accredited Museum)
On show at
Stourhead, Wiltshire, South West, National Trust
NT 732089
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Pastoral Landscape by Francesco Zuccarelli, RA (Pitigliano 1702 - Rome 1788), circa 1730-45. On the left, framed by a group of tall trees, a shepherd herds his cattle. He looks over towards a cow standing in the left foreground. In the centre, a horseman herds some sheep across a stream. Three peasant women are washing clothes on some rocks on the opposite bank of the stream at the far right. There are buildings in the middle distance on the right and at the left, a white church can be seen on the bank of a river estuary which stretches into the distance. To the right, a snowcapped mountain appears on the horizon. Birds fly above in a cloudy pink sky.
Provenance
Probabaly acquired, with its pendant, through Consul Smith in Venice; hence the fact that they have retained their Venetian frames but not listed in Stourhead until end of the 19th century;brought from Wavendon by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare 6th Bt (1865 - 1947) and Alda Weston, Lady Hoare (d. 1947) between 1894 and 1898. Given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946.
Credit line
Stourhead, The Hoare Collection (The National Trust)
Makers and roles
Francesco Zuccarelli, RA (Pitigliano 1702 - Florence 1788), artist
References
Stourhead Wiltshire, 1992: List of Pictures, [National Trust; Anthony Mitchell & Alastair Laing] 1992 , p.16