A Wooded Landscape with Figures
Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1725 - 1726
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1753 x 1257 mm (69 x 49 ½ in)
Order this imageCollection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 108885
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Wooded Landscape with Figures by Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749), circa 1725-1726. Wooded landscape with figures, cattle and sheep near ruins. The pendant to KED/P/197. Both pictures may have been originally painted in 1725-26 for Sir John Curzon for the old house, and installed here after its demolition in 1759-61. Although this has always been called a Van Diest, the true pendant of KED/P/197 [hangs as a framed picture (KED/P/198)] elsewhere in the house (Kedleston Hall), so that a confusion may have occured when the paintings were moved. The present picture has a much greater affinity with the Orizzontes in this room.
Provenance
This and the painting that serves as its pendant (KED/P/197; van Diest) may have been originally painted in 1725-26 for Sir John Curzon 3rd Bt MP (1674-1727) for the old house, and installed here after its demolition in 1759-61 and thence by descent; bought with part of the contents of Kedleston Hall with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) in 1986 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
Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749) , artist previously catalogued as attributed to Adriaen van Diest (c.1656 - 1704), artist
References
Lipscomb 1802 George Lipscomb A Description of Matlock-Bath, 1802, p. 108