The Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Child Angels
Jacques Stella (Lyon 1596 - Paris 1657)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1635 - 1640
Materials
Oil on slate
Measurements
464 x 333 mm (18 ¼ x 13 ⅛ in)
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 1139901.1
Summary
Oil painting on slate, The Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Child Angels by Jacques Stella (Lyon 1596 - Paris 1657), 1635-1640. The Virgin, dressed in a pink robe with green sleeves and blue mantle, sits in a chair, facing left, but turned back to look the two putti-angels who hold a bowl of grapes, apples, and pears which her left hand hovers over. The Christ Child on her lap holds an apple against his body with his left hand, and with his right holds a wreath of flowers over the head of the lamb held by the infant John the Baptist at the left of the picture, which raises its two front trotters onto the Virgin’s lap. Red velvet drapery behind the Virgin is pulled aside to reveal her work-basket on a table at the left. A fluted stone column on the right.
Provenance
In 1683 valuation and in the 1844 inventory as 'Charity' 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)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Original inventory number removed. Inscribed in black ink on laid paper: 5 Verso: Male head drawn on back, profile turned to left Verso: Inscribed on later label: B / 2698
Makers and roles
Jacques Stella (Lyon 1596 - Paris 1657), artist
