The Guardian Angel (after Domenichino)
after Domenico Zampieri Domenichino (Bologna 1581 - Naples 1641)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
457 x 362 mm (18 x 14 1/4 in)
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732223
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Guardian Angel, after Domenico Zampieri Domenichino (Bologna 1581 - Naples 1641), a 19th century copy of the original of 1614 now in Museo Capodimonte, Naples. The angel, probably Michael, dressed in gold and red with wings and a boy dressed in blue stand in front of an ornate classical stone pedestal/tomb/sarcophagus in a landscape The angel gestures heavenwards with his right hand and holds a shield around the boy with his left hand. Kneeling on the ground in the shadows, on the right, is a devil-like figure with a two-pronged fork.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946.
Credit line
Stourhead, The Hoare Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Inscribed in chalk on back of canvas: 282
Makers and roles
after Domenico Zampieri Domenichino (Bologna 1581 - Naples 1641), artist