Saint John the Baptist as a Boy with a Lamb
after Bartolomeo Schedoni (Formigine 1578 – Parma 1615)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Oil on panel (softwood)
Measurements
298 x 219 mm (11 3/4 x 8 5/8 in)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732095
Summary
Oil painting on softwood panel, Saint John the Baptist as a Boy with a Lamb, after Bartolomeo Schedoni (Formigine 1578 - Parma 1615), 17th century. John sits half-length at a table, facing left but looking out at the spectator. Beneath the red cloak worn over his right shoulder, an animal skin tunic refers to his ascetic life in the desert. The lamb, his attribute, is placed on the table in front of him on the left. He points towards the left with the index finger of his right hand. Based on a similar picture with an adult John the Baptist, now in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples.
Provenance
Acquired by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Bt. (Surrey 1758 – Stourhead 1838) and thence by descent; given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of contents by Sir Henry Hoare, 6th Baronet (1865 – 1947), 1946.
Credit line
Stourhead, The Hoare Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Inscribed on back in ink in an old script the words: Originale de Correggio Bartolomeo Schidone [?] Verso: In black paint, No. 10 Verso: With a red wax seal half effaced: a crowned coat of arms, impaled with a bird (?) over a lion (?) rampart, right, and a ball (?) over an abbot's pallium (?), left.
Makers and roles
after Bartolomeo Schedoni (Formigine 1578 – Parma 1615), artist
References
Sir Richard Colt Hoare, A Description of the House and Gardens at Stourhead in the County of Wilts, the Seat of Sir Richard Hoare, Bart., with a Catalogue of the Pictures &c.,1800, no.21 Hoare 1822 Sir Richard Colt Hoare, History of Modern Wiltshire (Hundred of Mere),1822 Stourhead 1838: Inventory of Heir-Looms at Stourhead directed to be taken by the Will of the late Sir Richard Colt Hoare Bart. with the state and condition thereof, 1838 , no. 325 Waagen 1854-7: Gustav Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, 3 vols. (translated by Lady Eastlake) with a supplementary volume: Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London, 1854-7, p.172 Stourhead 1898 Alda, Lady Hoare, Catalogue of Principal Paintings & Drawings at Stourhead July 6th 1898 (Ms.typescript), 1898 , p.19