A Royal Child seated by a Vase of Flowers and a Monkey with a Garden beyond with the figure of Pomona
possibly Spanish Colonial
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
876 x 1270 mm (34 1/2 x 50 in)
Place of origin
South America
Order this imageCollection
Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset
NT 1257168
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Royal Child seated by a Vase of Flowers and a Monkey, with a Garden beyond with the figure of Pomona, Spanish Colonial (?) School, 17th century. On the left a monkey seated gazing at a large vase of flowers, right, a female child, seated on the ground, full-length, three-quarter to left, facing, with short curly hair, wearing a crown, pearl-earrings a necklace with a hanging jewel, a long-sleeved short chemise which has slipped off her left shoulder, bare legs, her left hand holds some flowers in her lap her right hand plucks a flower from the vase, a formal garden in the left background in which a girl/woman is walking. Possibly South American, rather than Spanish, this might once have embodied Spring, in a set of Four Seasons
Provenance
First recorded in 1762; bequeathed by (Henry John) Ralph Bankes (1902 – 1981) together with the estates of Corfe Castle and Kingston Lacy and its entire contents
Credit line
Kingston Lacy, The Bankes Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
possibly Spanish Colonial, artist possibly Spanish School, artist