Landscape with Pastoral Figures and Animals (from Milton's 'L'Allegro' [1645])
Francesco Zuccarelli, RA (Pitigliano 1702 - Florence 1788)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1762
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1156 x 1511 mm (45 1/2 x 59 1/2 in )
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 108878
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Landscape with Pastoral Figures and Animals from Milton's 'L'Allegro' by Francesco Zuccarelli, RA (Pitigliano 1702 - Florence 1788), 1762. One of a pair of landscape oil paintings. One of a pair. Though always thought of as Venetian, since he spent much of his life there, and his landcapes and figures have a bright, Venetian vivacity, Zuccarelli was a Florentine. This unusual choice of a Miltonic subject, albeit one particularly suited to his strengths as a painter, was presumably due to the lst Baron Scarsdale, for whom this picture and its pendant (KED/P/188) were painted in 1762
Provenance
Painted for 1st Baron Scarsdale in 1762 with KED/P/188 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
Francesco Zuccarelli, RA (Pitigliano 1702 - Florence 1788), artist