A Bacchante with a Satyr holding a Basket of Fruit
after Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1630 - 1679
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
984 x 749 mm (38 3/4 x 29 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Antwerp
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Ham House, Surrey
NT 1139864
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Bacchante with a Satyr holding a Basket of Fruit, after Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Seigen 1577 - Antwerp 1640), mid 17th century. The faun on the right, holds a basket of fruit, the bacchante, on the left, looking up at the faun, fingers some grapes in his basket. Rubens painted several versions of this subject and this copy is closest to a work in the Moltke Collection in Copenhagen; the other versions are in Vienna, Dresden and The Hague and the prime original in a private collection, France.
Provenance
In 1679-1683 Catalogue [The Tollemache Papers, Buckminster Estate Office, MSS.362.] as:[36]: 'A Satyr & Coris [?] Jordanes £2.10.0.' ;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
after Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Jacob Jordaens (Antwerp 1593 – Antwerp 1678), artist