Landscape with the Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca
after Claude Lorrain (Champagne 1600 – Rome 1682)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
641 x 864 mm (25 1/4 x 34 in)
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 608971
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca, after Claude Lorrain (Champagne 1600 – Rome 1682), 19th century. The ceremony, not related in the Bible (Old Testament, Genesis 24: 6ff) is acted out by figures to the right; wooded landscape, river in centre of middle distance, classical building on the left bank and view of a distant town in the far distance on the right bank, a male and female figure reclining on the ground in the centre, other figures including two females dancing, and clustered centre and right, small number of cattle on the left; distant mountains beyond. A copy of the original, from the Angerstein collection in 1824, in the National Gallery, London, its popular title being 'The Mill', another version of which is in the Doria Pamphilj, Rome. Cardinal Camillo Pamphili, nephew of Pope Innocent X was the first owner of the original in 1648 before his disgrace and it was then sold to Duc de Bouillon (1605-52).
Provenance
Believed to be 3rd Lord Berwick collection. 1913 Inventory p.71; bequeathed to the National Trust with the estate, house and contents of Attingham by Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick (1877-1947) on 15th May 1953.
Credit line
Attingham Park, The Berwick Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
39 on frame
Makers and roles
after Claude Lorrain (Champagne 1600 – Rome 1682), artist