Clytie repulsing Cupid (after Annibale Carracci)
Francesco Bartolozzi (Florence 1727 - Lisbon 1815)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1772 - 1776
Materials
Coloured engraving on paper
Measurements
740 x 650 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall (Children's Country House), Derbyshire
NT 653481
Summary
Coloured engraving, Clytie repulsing Cupid (after Annibale Carracci) by Francesco Bartolozzi (Florence 1727 – Lisbon 1815). A late 18th-century coloured engraving titled CLYTIE within a circular verre eglomise mount (roundel) showing a young woman sitting on the left; the winged cherub (god of love) holding a torch in his left hand and grasps her left hand with his right whilst she is poking him with a branch of coral and holding a sunflower in her right hand, in a landscape. She is wearing a brown dress and a light blue robe. Clytie was an ocean nymph who fell in love with Apollo but when he deserted her she was changed into a sunflower which turns it head to follow the sun on its daily course from east to west. Published by John Boydell November 26th 1772.
Provenance
A bequest from A.Hopewell to the National Trust in 1985
Makers and roles
Francesco Bartolozzi (Florence 1727 - Lisbon 1815), engraver (printmaker) after Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560 - Rome 1609), artist attributed to John Boydell I (Dorrington 1719 – Cheapside, London 1804), engraver and publisher