A White Hart, with the Tomb of Caecilia Metella beyond
Serafino Cesaretti
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bodycolour on paper
Measurements
189 x 232 mm
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 267132
Summary
Bodycolour on paper, A White Hart, with the Tomb of Caecilia Metella beyond, by Serafino Cesaretti (fl.19th century). A white stag (hart) with antlers and a gilt collar nibbles at a vine trailing up the trunk of a tree. The Tomb of Caecilia Metella is in the background at right, with mountains beyond. Flowers grow at the base of the tree and in the grass surrounding it. The deer's gilt collar is inscribed in Latin 'Cesaris […]', i.e. 'noli me tangere quia Cesaris sum' ('do not touch me for I am Caesar's).
Provenance
Anon, sale, Sotheby's 21 January 1959 (Lot 19) purchased by Brinsley Ford and by descent to Augustine Ford. Accepted under the Cultural Gifts Scheme by HM Government from Augustine Ford and allocated to the National Trust for Osterley, 2023.
Makers and roles
Serafino Cesaretti, artist
References
Ford 1998 Brinsley Ford, John Ingamells, Francis Russell, John Christian, Nicholas Penny, Jennifer Montagu, Howard Coutts, Timothy Wilson & Dudley Dodd, The Ford Collection – II, Walpole Society, Vol. 60, 1998, pp. 91-376, p. 166 (RBF96) Garnett 2015: Oliver Garnett, At Home with Art Treasures from the Ford Collection at Basildon Park, National Trust, 2015, p. 20