Dorinda dressed in a Wolf Skin is wounded by Silvio, found by Mirtillo and Ergasto (after Zucchi) (from Giovanni Battista Guarini's Il Pastor Fido Act 4 sc. 9)
after François-Xavier Vispré (c.1730 - London 1790)
Category
Art / Wall paintings
Date
circa 1785
Materials
Oil on plaster
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 609133
Summary
Oil painting (circular) on plaster, Dorinda dressed in a Wolf Skin is wounded by Silvio, found by Mirtillo and Ergasto (after Zucchi) (from Giovanni Battista Guarini's Il Pastor Fido Act 4 sc. 9), after François-Xavier Vispré (c.1730 - London 1790), circa 1785. Previously catalogued as attributed to Louis-André Delabrière, after Angelica Kauffman. A fainting woman held in the arms of a man while another with a hound looks on. A mythological subject, a young classical female figure held in the arms of a young man whilst another looks on. A bow in the foreground, 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 after Antonio Zucchi, RA (Venice 1726 - Rome 1796), artist previously catalogued as circle of Louis-André Delabrière, artist previously catalogued as after Angelica Kauffman RA (Chur 1741 – Rome 1807), artist