Virgin and Child with Saints Joseph and Catherine of Alexandria
attributed to Rocco Marconi (Treviso. c. 1485 - Venice 1529)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1530 - 1569
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
889 x 1448 mm
Place of origin
Venice
Order this imageCollection
Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd
NT 1420362
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Virgin and Child with Saint Joseph and Saint Catherine of Alexandria, attributed to Rocco Marconi (Treviso. c. 1485 - Venice 1529), previously catalogued as by Giovanni Cariani (Venice c.1485 – Venice c.1550). Saint Catherine is on the right holding part of the wheel upon which she was tortured and two parrots sit on the tree behind her whilst two birds fly by in sky on the left. The attribution to Cariani is derived from the catalogue of 1902, which states that it was probably bought by George Hay Dawkins-Pennant, and that it was 'done up' in 1899. Saint Catherine is denoted by one of the spiked wheels with which the Emperor Maxentius reputedly first attempted to have her martyred. They were destroyed by divine intervention, and she was ultimately beheaded.
Provenance
Reputedly purchased by George Hay Dawkins-Pennant (1764 - 1840); thence by descent to Hugh Napier Douglas-Pennant, 4th Baron Penrhyn of Llangedai (1894 – 1949), who left Penryhn and its estates to his niece, Lady Janet Marcia Rose Pelham (1923 - 1997), who with her husband John Charles Harper, thereupon assumed the name of Douglas Pennant; accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Trust for display at Penrhyn Castle, 2002
Credit line
Penrhyn Castle, The Douglas Pennant Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
attributed to Rocco Marconi (Treviso. c. 1485 - Venice 1529), artist previously catalogued as by Giovanni Cariani (b.1485/90), artist