Pietà
after Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese Michelangelo 1475 - Rome 1564)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1600 - 1629
Materials
Marble
Measurements
1195 x 1015 x 880 mm; 680 mm (Circ)
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486427
Summary
Marble, Pietà, after Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese Michelangelo 1475 - Rome 1564), early 17th century. A reduced marble copy, possibly done for the Earl of Arundel (1586 - 1646) by, possibly François Dieussart (fl. 1622 - London 1661), of Michelangelo's Madonna looking down at Christ lying partially draped across her lap, the original of around 1500 is still in St Peter's Rome.
Provenance
Bought by the 6th Duke of Somerset, the 'Proud Duke' in 1691 from the Arundel Collection, for £108 as 'a marble statue of the old Ld Arundell's beeing a Madonna with a dead Christ in her lap by Mich-Angelo'. (Blunt, Petworth Rehung, p.130); 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 HM Treasury.
Marks and inscriptions
125 (painted on front base)
Makers and roles
after Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese Michelangelo 1475 - Rome 1564), sculptor possibly François Dieussart (c.1600 - London 1661), sculptor