An Unknown French Lady holding Flowers and a Red Squirrel
French School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1730 - 1740
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1500 x 1250 mm
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Basildon Park, Berkshire
NT 266924
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, An Unknown French Lady holding Flowers and a Red Squirrel nibbling Nuts, French School, previously school of Nicolas Mignard d'Avignon (1606-68). A three-quarter-length portrait, seated, her right elbow resting on table holding up the ribbon attached to red squirrel which sits nibbling a nut. Left hand holds bunch of flowers in lap. Wears red decollete dress with lace round neck and at cuffs of white under sleeves. Green cloak with gold border. Dark hair with bunch of flowers in it. Plain dark ground. Plain gilt border with corner reliefs of interweaving foliage and pierced foliage surround.
Provenance
Presented by Lord and Lady Iliffe to the National Trust, together with the house and grounds of Basildon Park, and a substantial part of their collection of paintings, in 1979
Credit line
Basildon Park, The Iliffe Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
French School, artist school of Nicholas Mignard (Troyes 1606 - Paris 1668) , artist