Girl illustrating the grape harvest
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
circa 1850 - 1900
Materials
Ormolu
Measurements
190 x 120 mm
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 435348.2
Summary
Ormolu on ormolu oval base, figure of a girl, French, 19th century. One of a pair of ormolu figures of a boy and girl illustrating the grape harvest mounted on ormolu bases (see also NT 435348.1). The girl wears her hair tied up with a bow and looks downward to bottom left. A band of cloth is draped around her hips and she wears a bag for collecting grapes. Her right arm rests on a basket of grapes placed atop a tree trunk. She holds up a grapevine, raising it to the sky with her left hand to form a drooping curve. Alice Rylance-Watson September 2018
Provenance
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) from Edward John Peregrine Cust, 7th Baron Brownlow, C. St J. (b.1936) in 1984.
Credit line
Belton House, The Brownlow Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund by the National Trust in 1994)