Two Praying Angels
after Jacopo Palma il Giovane (Venice c.1548 – Venice 1628)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1020 x 1060 mm
Place of origin
Italy
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1129239
Caption
This picture was inspired by Tenier’s ‘Theatrum Pictorum’, which showed paintings from the collection of Archduke Leopold, and was engraved by Lucas Vorsterman. The artist has amalgamated into one picture two plates from the album. In the album, the plates are inscribed as after a pair of paintings by ‘Palma Senior’. Stylistically this seems highly improbable, and no originals have yet come to light.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Two Praying Angels, after Jacopo Palma il Giovane (Venice c.1548 – Venice 1628). Two three-quarter length winged angels standing to left and right, turned slightly towards each other, the left angel with hands in attitude of prayer, the right angel with hands crossed on breast; a stone parapet behind them and a view of an extensive landscape and stormy sky. This painting is an amalgamation into one picture of plates nos. 192 and 193 in Teniers' 'Theatrum Pictorum' in which (engraved by Lucas Vorsterman) they are inscribed as after a pair of paintings by 'I.Palma Senior'. This does not look very probable, but is difficult to verify, since the originals do not appear to be with the majority of paintings from Archduke Leopold's collection, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Provenance
By descent until, following the death of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (1895 - 1950), Hardwick Hall and its contents were accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death duties and transferred to the National Trust, in 1959
Credit line
Hardwick Hall, The Devonshire Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Jacopo Palma il Giovane (Venice c.1548 – Venice 1628), artist