The Agony in the Garden
Italian (North Italian) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1799
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
435 x 505 mm
Order this imageCollection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1401152
Caption
‘Father, if it be thy will, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but thine be done.’ So called out Jesus, when after the Last Supper, he retired to the Mount of Olives to pray. According to Luke’s Gospel, an angel from heaven brought him strength, as is depicted here. This picture was described as a Roman work in an eighteenth century catalogue of paintings at Felbrigg. However, it appears to be North Italian, even Venetian, rather than Roman. It has also been suggested that it was painted by a Tyrolean artist, because the iconography is unusual for an Italian work, and moreover, Tyrolean painting was strongly influenced by the Veneto.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Agony in the Garden by Italian (North Italian) School, 18th century. Half length figures against a dark ground. Christ, prostate at right looks up at the Angel who holds out the cup. Called 'supposed C. Marratt' in Windham's hanging plan, and simply ascribed to Maratta thereafter, but it cannot be by this artist, nor even Roman. It is more probably from the northern Veneto or the Tyrol.
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)
Makers and roles
Italian (North Italian) School, artist previously catalogued as after Carlo Maratta (Camerano 1625 – Rome 1713), artist possibly G. A. Pedrini, artist