Italian Garden Scene with a Monk by a Fountain
Unknown artist
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
375 x 475 mm
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732321
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Italian Garden Scene with a Monk by a Fountain, Unknown artist, 19th century. In the distance beyond a stone balustrade is a lake and a figure looking out onto it. In the centre a monk looks up at a stone fountain on an oblong sarcophagus with statues and flanked by pine trees. In the immedaite right foreground is a tree stump.
Provenance
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 (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Unknown artist, artist