Venus giving Arms to Aeneas
Giovanni Battista Pittoni the younger (Venice 1687 - Venice 1767)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1710 - 1720
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1384 x 1581 mm (54 1/2 x 62 1/4 in)
Order this imageCollection
Basildon Park, Berkshire
NT 266913
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Venus giving Arms to Aeneas by Giovanni Battista Pittoni (1687-1767), 1710-20. On left Aeneas, wearing armour, helmet and red cloak, kneels before the goddess Venus (his mother), who holds a bow and takes a sword. She, recumbent from right to left on a cloud, rests on her left arm while pointing with her right, and looks down at two cupids, one with face buried in a dove, the other blindfold laying with sheaf of arrows. In moulded gilt frame.
Provenance
Collection of Prince Jean Ducas, Alexandria, Egypt (c.1935); Colnaghi, 1962; Lord and Lady Iliffe, Basildon Park, Berkshire; purchased by the National Trust, 1978
Credit line
Basildon Park, The Iliffe Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Giovanni Battista Pittoni the younger (Venice 1687 - Venice 1767) , artist
References
Fiocco 1935: Giuseppe Fiocco, 'G. B. Pittoni and Jacopo Amigoni ad Allessandria d'Egitto', Rivista di Venezia, Vol.14 (nos.6-7) (1935), pp.327-332., p.327, Figs. 1 & 2 Palluchini 1945: Rudolfo Palluchini, I Disegni di Giambattista Pittoni, Venice 1945, p.15, plate III.