Apollo as a Shepherd
style of Pier Francesco Mola (Coldrerio 1612 – Rome 1666)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
610 mm (24 in) (Diameter)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 1271045
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Apollo as a Shepherd, style of Pier Francesco Mola (Coldrerio 1612 – Rome 1666). Circular with a square frame. Apollo seated holding a crook, a sheep and goat in foreground.
Provenance
Shugborough sale, 1842, lot 53 as "Rosa da Tivoli, Shepherds [sic] with sheep and Goats in a Landscape, circular" and annotated as Wyatt (Harvey, estate agent) - bought in." ;transferred to the National Trust with Shugborough’s park and contents of the state rooms, in part-payment of death-duties to the Treasury, following the death of Thomas, 4th Earl of Lichfield (1883 - 1960)
Makers and roles
style of Pier Francesco Mola (Coldrerio 1612 – Rome 1666), artist Italian School, artist previously catalogued as attributed to Philipp Peter Roos, called Rosa da Tivoli (St Goar 1657 – Rome 1706), artist Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Genoa 1609 - Mantua 1664) , artist