Silvio carries Dorinda to his House (after Zucchi)
after François-Xavier Vispré (c.1730 - London 1790)
Category
Art / Wall paintings
Date
circa 1785
Materials
Oil on plaster
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 609130
Summary
Oil painting (circular) on plaster, Silvio carries Dorinda to his House (after Zucchi), after François-Xavier Vispré (c.1730 - London 1790), circa 1785. Two men carrying a woman in their arms accompanied by a hound. A mythological subject, two men carry a sleeping female figure in their arms. A hound to the left in landscape setting. Painted wall roundel, gilt border in laurel wreath.
Provenance
Believed to have been commissioned by Noel Hill (1745-1789), created 1st Baron Berwick in 1784; by descent 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.
Makers and roles
after François-Xavier Vispré (c.1730 - London 1790), artist previously catalogued as circle of Louis-André Delabrière, artist after Angelica Kauffman RA (Chur 1741 – Rome 1807), artist after Antonio Zucchi, RA (Venice 1726 - Rome 1796), artist