Xenophon's Sacrifice to Diana
after Pietro da Cortona (Cortona 1596 – Rome 1669)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
760 x 1070 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Vyne Estate, Hampshire
NT 719452
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Xenophon's Sacrifice to Diana after Pietro da Cortona (Cortona 1596 – Rome 1669), 19th century. A priest is slaying a bull and a second sacrifice of a goat is carried out before the Temple of Mars to Diana, the goddess of hunting. This painting is a copy, probably also from an engraving, of the painting in the Pallavicini Collection in the Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi in Rome, which is a studio variant of Pietro da Cortona's lost painting of 1653, formerly in the Barberini Collection, of which there is a drawing and a Bartolzzi print in the V&A.
Provenance
Possibly the: "Pronuptio di Diana (given by Lord Northampton, nephew of Mrs William Chute)", recorded by 1880s Notes, in the Further Drawing Room; bequeathed with The Vyne, estate and contents by Sir Charles Chute, 1st Bt (1879-1956)
Credit line
The Vyne, The Chute Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Pietro da Cortona (Cortona 1596 – Rome 1669), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Nicolas Poussin (Les Andeleys, Normandy 1594 – Rome 1665), artist