Classical Landscape with Two Reclining Women Conversing
Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1715 - 1725
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
724 x 546 mm (28 1/2 x 21 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 608994
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Classical Landscape with Two Reclining Women Conversing by Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749), circa 1715/25. An oval landscape of two reclining women in the foreground, beyond a terrace with statue and cypress trees, a church in the middle distance to right.
Provenance
One of a set of six ovals pictures listed in the bill of lading in the papers from William Noel-Hill, 3rd Baron Berwick, PC, FSA (1773 - 1842), which is that of his final return from Naples to England in 1833, thence by descent; bequeathed to the National Trust by Edith Teresa Hulton, Lady Berwick (1890-1972).
Credit line
Attingham Park, The Berwick Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
On front of frame : 58 146 On stretcher (middle horizontal): 8 On stretcher (bottom): ATT/P/058 On stretcher (right): 2 On reverse of frame (top): Scribbles and illegible writing in pencil 3 (in blue chalk) On reverse of frame (top): 4 On reverse of frame (left spandrel): 142 (partly obscured) On reverse of frame (bottom): No. (scribbled out) 8 On reverse of frame (bottom): ATT/PF/058
Makers and roles
Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749) , artist