Nymph with torch
Cliveden Conservation Workshop
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
2003
Materials
Marble on marble plinth
Measurements
1910 x 610 x 610 mm
Place of origin
Great Britain
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 438090
Summary
Marble on marble plinth, nymph with a torch, Cliveden Conservation Workshop Limited, 2003, a reconstruction of a departed 19th century sculpture (NT 436793.2). A nymph, nude ,with drapery around her lower body, holds a torch in her proper left hand and covers her breast with her proper right hand.
Full description
Venus, the goddess of love, has been depicted with a torch by Pierre-Paul Prud’hon (Le flambeau de Vénus, c.1807, Musée Condé, Chantilly, France, PE 421), Marcantonio Raimondi (Caritas, 1510-1520, Albertina, Wien, DG1970/440) and Albrecht Altdorfer after Peregrino de Cesana (Venus with two Putti, 1512-15, British Museum, London 1845,0809.1153). Alice Rylance-Watson October 2018
Provenance
Acquired 2003 by The National Trust from Cliveden Conservation Workshop Limited.
Credit line
Belton House, The Brownlow Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund by the National Trust in 1994)
Makers and roles
Cliveden Conservation Workshop, sculptor