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Diana (Selene) and Endymion

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (Venice 1675 - Venice 1741)

Category

Art / Oil paintings

Date

1708 - 1719

Materials

Oil on canvas

Measurements

1168 x 1930 mm (46 x 76 in)

Place of origin

England

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Collection

Hinton Ampner, Hampshire

NT 1530088

Summary

Oil painting on canvas, Diana (Selene) and Endymion by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (Venice 1675 - Venice 1741), 1708/19. Diana kneeling over the sleeping Endymion with Cupid at her side. A characteristic work of this Venetian artist, very possibly painted when he was in England, from 1708 to 1713 and again in 1719. Endymion was a shepherd granted perpetual sleep, and thus youth by Zeus (Jupiter), and of such beauty that Selene (Diana), the goddess of the moon, was said to visit him nightly.

Provenance

Purchased by Ralph Stawell Dutton (1898–1985), 8th & last Lord Sherborne, from Malcolm R. Waddingham (2 February 1961); bequeathed to the National Trust by Ralph Stawell Dutton, with the rest of the collections, house, gardens and estate of Hinton Ampner.

Credit line

Hinton Ampner, The Ralph Dutton Collection (National Trust)

Makers and roles

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (Venice 1675 - Venice 1741), artist

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