A Vase of Flowers with Fruit, a Monkey and Birds on a Terrace
Jakob Bogdany (c.1660 - 1724)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1691 - 1724
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1905 x 1524 mm (75 x 60 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 108921
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Vase of Flowers with Fruit, a Monkey and Birds on a Terrace by Jakob Bogdani (Eperjes (now Presov), Hungary c.1660 – Finchley 1724), circa 1691 - 1724. Traces of a signature on plinth, bottom right J Bo[gdani] (apparently deliberately painted over in brown - the better to pass it off as a J.Baptiste Monnoyer?). A pair to KED/P/259 and bought by William Kent for Sir Nathaniel Curzon. This Hungarian artist specialised in still life and flower painting, though in England he is best known as a painter of exotic birds, because of the set of paintings at Kew. Of gentle birth and apparently self trained, he was in England in 1691, employed by William III by 1694, and naturalised in 1700.
Provenance
There is no firm evidence for any purchases by Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 4th Bt (1676-1758) at the posthumous sale of Sir James Thornhill (1675 - 1758), 24-25 February, 1734-5, as by ‘Old Baptist’ but there is apparently a copy of the catalogue at Kedleston (the implication of Leslie Harris’s letter of 2 April 1992), and it includes “A Piece of Flowers by Baptiste” which sold at £3.15.0., and ‘Its Companion by Ditto’ that sale at £8.0.0.- the large difference in price suggesting that - like the two at Kedleston - they were not true pendants; recorded in the North Music Room/Music Room: Catalogue, 1769, 1770; Young, 1771; Catalogue, c1778, c.1787; Pilkington, 1789; Catalogue, 1789-90; Lipscomb, 1802; Britton, 1802, Davies, 1811; Topographer, 1824; Catalogue, 1849, 1856, 1861; Athenæum, 1874; Scarsdale, 1977; 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)
Marks and inscriptions
signature - painted - bottom left of canvas - text - J. Bol
Makers and roles
Jakob Bogdany (c.1660 - 1724), publisher previously catalogued as attributed to Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (Lille 1636 – London 1699), publisher
References
Young 1771 Arthur Young, The Farmer’s Tour through the East of England. Being The Register of a Journey through various Counties of this Kingdom, to enquire into the State of Agriculture, &c. 4 vols. London, 1771, vol.I, p. 194 Pilkington, James view of the present state of Derbyshire; M,DCC,LXXXIX [1789]., Vol.II, p.120 Lipscomb 1802 George Lipscomb A Description of Matlock-Bath, 1802, p.108 Anon 1874 “The Private Collections of England. No.X – Kedleston Hall”, The Athenæum, 8 August 1874, p.184