River Scene with Fortified Bridge and Figures in a Boat
manner of Domenico Zampieri Domenichino (Bologna 1581 - Naples 1641)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
406 x 610 mm (16 x 24 in)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 108844
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, River Scene with Fortified Bridge and Figures in a Boat, manner of Domenico Zampieri Domenichino (Bologna 1581 - Naples 1641), 17th century. River with single span arch bridge with towers on either side and two cottages on right of river. A standing boatman is rowing three people. Two figures, one pointing to the boat, stand beneath tree on left. This kind of classicising landscape, promulgated from Rome by the Bolognese Anibale Carracci and his former pupil Domenichino, represents the opposite pole to the sort of wild landscape made popular by Salvator Rosa. Although ascribed to Domenichino himself since it was first recorded at Kedleston, circa 1787, this is by an unidentified follower.
Provenance
Recorded in the The Wardrobe by 1770 and thence by descent until gifted to the National Trust in 1986 by Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale (1924-2000).
Credit line
Kedleston Hall, The Scarsdale Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1987)
Makers and roles
manner of Domenico Zampieri Domenichino (Bologna 1581 - Naples 1641), artist
References
Anon 1874 “The Private Collections of England. No.X – Kedleston Hall”, The Athenæum, 1 August 1874, no.2440, p.150