Putti around a Fire: Winter
manner of Pieter Joseph Sauvage (Tournai 1744 - Tournai 1818)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1775 - 1800
Materials
Oil on panel (grisaille)
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
Order this imageCollection
Montacute House, Somerset
NT 597890
Summary
Oil painting on panel (grisaille), Putti around a Fire: Winter, manner of Pieter Joseph Sauvage (Tournai 1744 - Tournai 1818), 18th century. From a set of four canvases inspired by, and with elements taken from prints by François Boucher (1703 -1770), showing putti engaged in appropriate seasonal activities. A roundel of three naked putti around a fire in a wood, the one on the left is blowing on the flames through a pipe, the one in the centre, wearing a hat, is crying, the third on the right is seated, wearing a cloak over his shoulders and is warming himself by stretching out both his arms to the flames.
Provenance
Bequeathed by Sir Percy Malcolm Stewart (1871-1951) to the National Trust in and transferred to Montacute House, 1960 after the death of Lady Stewart.
Credit line
Montacute House, The Malcolm Stewart Bequest (National Trust)
Makers and roles
manner of Pieter Joseph Sauvage (Tournai 1744 - Tournai 1818), artist Flemish School, artist Dutch School, artist after François Boucher (Paris 1703 – Paris 1770), artist
References
Montacute House, Somerset, 1991 [The National Trust; Malcolm Rogers] 1991, p.63. "THE LIBRARY ANTE-ROOM OVERDOORS: Autumn and Winter Grisailles, presumably from a set of four canvasses representing The Seasons, showing putti engaged in appropriate seasonal activities (Stewart Bequest) Unknown artist, perhaps Flemish, eighteenth century." Montacute House, Somerset, 1997 [The National Trust; Malcolm Rogers] 1991, revised 1997 , p.63. "THE LIBRARY ANTE-ROOM OVERDOORS: Autumn and Winter Grisailles, presumably from a set of four canvasses representing The Seasons, showing putti engaged in appropriate seasonal activities (Stewart Bequest) Unknown artist, perhaps Flemish, eighteenth century." Montacute House, Somerset, 2004-2006 [The National Trust; Malcolm Rogers] 2000, revised 2004, reprinted 2005, 2006, p.51. "THE LIBRARY ANTE-ROOM OVERDOORS: Autumn and Winter Grisailles, presumably from a set of four canvasses representing The Seasons, showing putti engaged in appropriate seasonal activities (Stewart Bequest) Unknown artist, perhaps Flemish, eighteenth century."