The Healing of Saul by the Priest Ananias (after da Cortona)
Jakob Frey the Elder (1681 - 1752)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1740
Materials
Hand-coloured etching and engraving on paper
Measurements
642 x 480 x 40 mm
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 730907
Summary
Hand-coloured etching and engraving, The Healing of Saul by the Priest Ananias, Jakob (Jacob) Frey (1681-1752) after Pietro da Cortona (Cortona 1596 – Rome 1669), 1740, hand-coloured by Jacob van Lint (1723 - 1790) or Hendrik Frans van Lint, Rome, Italy, 1759-1762. The inscription cut from the print is pasted to the backboard. The original is in Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome.
Provenance
Commissioned by Henry Hoare II, called 'the Magnificent' (1705-1785). Listed in a price list accompanying a letter from John Plimmer to Hoare, 9 June 1759 (WSA, 383.907). Listed in a studio bill enclosed with a letter from Thomas Jenkins to Hoare, 19 June 1762 (WSA, 383.907). Listed in 'The Catalogue or Particulars of the Pictures Prints Statues and other Things' attached to the Stourhead Settlement, 1784, attributed to 'Studio' (see Dodd, 2016) (WSA, 383.715). Thence by descent. Bequeathed by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947), 1946.
Makers and roles
Jakob Frey the Elder (1681 - 1752), printer Pietro da Cortona (Cortona 1596 – Rome 1669), original artist Hendrik Frans van Lint, colourist Jacob van Lint (1723 - 1790), colourist