Orpheus charming the Animals
Francesco Bassano the Younger (Bassano del Grappa 1549 – Venice 1592)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1590 - 1679
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
665 x 905 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 1139803
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Orpheus charming the Animals, by Francesco Bassano the younger (Bassano del Grappa 1549 – Venice 1592). A bearded man on the right, sitting upon a rock playing a violin, surrounded by animals on the ground and birds in the trees, woodland setting with distant horizon to the left.
Provenance
Possibly part of William Murray's collection; and in Mr Wyck's 1679/83 valuation and thence by descent until acquired in 1948 by HM Government when Sir Lyonel, 4th Bt (1854 – 1952) and Sir Cecil Tollemache, 5th Bt (1886 – 1969) presented Ham House to the National Trust, and entrusted to the care of the Victoria & Albert Museum, until 1990, when returned to the care of the National Trust, and to which ownership was transferred in 2002
Credit line
Ham House, The Dysart Collection (purchased by HM Government in 1948 and transferred to the National Trust in 2002)
Makers and roles
Francesco Bassano the Younger (Bassano del Grappa 1549 – Venice 1592), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Jacopo Bassano (Bassano c.1510 – Venice 1592), artist previously catalogued as attributed to David Teniers the younger (Antwerp 1610 - Brussels 1690), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Paul Bril (Antwerp 1554 - Rome 1626), artist
