Frame
Category
Frames
Date
1730
Materials
Oak, Water gilt
Measurements
1120 x 1420 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485525
Summary
A c. 1730 rococo Louis XIV style frame for a landscape (NT/PET/P/83) by Paul Bril (c.1554-1626) with troglodyte goatherds.
Provenance
Acquired in 1730 by Jacques-Francois-Leonor de Goyon-Matignon, duc de Valentinois (1689-1751), hotel de Matignon, Paris. Sold privately. Bragg's sale, Prestagne's, 24-25 January, 1754, 2nd day, lot 63. Bought by 'Anderson' on behalf of the 2nd Earl of Egremont for £126. Thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.