Alexander and the Body of Darius
Italian (Venetian) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1600
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1850 x 1850 mm
Place of origin
Venice
Order this imageCollection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 108875
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Alexander and the Body of Darius, Italian (Venetian) School. circa 1600. It depicts Alexander the Great giving thanks for his victory beside his dead enemy after the Battle of Arbela and Darius's flight. For a long time wrongly identified as Achilles with the body of Patroclus. Formerly attributed to Paolo Veronese, now thought to be a 17th Century painting later touched up to resemble one by Veronese.
Provenance
This painting and KED/P/185 were both recorded in the old Kedleston House in the 1740s by Lord Egmont, with their traditional attribution to Paolo Veronese; and thence by descent until bought with part of the contents of Kedleston with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund in 1987 when the house and park were given to the National Trust 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
Italian (Venetian) School , artist previously catalogued as attributed to Paolo Veronese (Verona 1528 -Venice 1588), artist