Architectural Capriccio with the Maison Carré and the Temples of Vesta and Minerva Medica
attributed to Francis Harding (fl. c.1730 – 1760)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1712 - 1765
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1372 x 1016 mm (54 x 40 in)
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Clandon Park, Surrey
NT 1441473
Summary
[Destroyed in the fire of 2015] Oil painting on canvas, Architectural Capriccio with the Maison Carré and the Temples of Vesta and Minerva Medica, attributed to Francis Harding (fl. c.1730 – 1760), after Giovanni Paolo Panini (Piacanza c.1692 - Rome 1765). An overmantel view of statue of the Farnese Hercules seen from behind is silhouetted against the Maison Carré of Nîmes on the left; in the distance to the right of it, the Temple of Minverva Medica; on the right, a seemingly invented statue of Apollo killing the Python stands in front of a part of the Temple of Vesta, with, in front of it, an invented relief a satyr pursuing a Nymph.
Provenance
Marked in Lady Iveagh’s 1966 Inventory, p9 Purchased in 1986 with the aid of a grant from the V&A Museum Purchase Grant Fund and the Monument Trust
Makers and roles
attributed to Francis Harding (fl. c.1730 – 1760), artist after Giovanni Paolo Panini (Piacanza c.1692 - Rome 1765) , artist
References
Haskell and Penny 1981: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 - 1900, New Haven and London, 1981, 46