Judith Holding up the Head of Holofernes (after Domenichino)
Jakob Frey the Elder (1681 - 1752)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
c. 1700 - 1750
Materials
Hand-coloured etching and engraving on paper
Measurements
452 x 417 x 40 mm
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 730923
Summary
Hand-coloured etching and engraving, Judith Holding up the Head of Holofernes, Jakob (Jacob) Frey (1681-1752) after Domenico Zampieri Domenichino (Bologna 1581 - Naples 1641), circa 1700-1750, hand-coloured by Jacob van Lint (1723 - 1790) or Hendrik Frans van Lint, Rome, Italy, 1759-1762. The original is in the Bandini Chapel in San Silvestro al Quirinale, 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 an undated bill (WSA, 38304.253). 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 after Domenico Zampieri Domenichino (Bologna 1581 - Naples 1641), original artist Hendrik Frans van Lint, colourist Jacob van Lint (1723 - 1790), colourist