The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (after Leonardo)
after Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452 - Amboise 1519)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1508 - 1790
Materials
Oil on vellum laid on poplar panel
Measurements
394 x 273 mm (15 1/2 x 10 3/4 in)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732382
Caption
The original famous painting by Leonardo, from which this fragile painting derives, is now in the Louvre, Paris. St Anne sits serenely in a landscape with her daughter, the Virgin Mary, sitting on her mother’s lap, whilst stretching towards her son, the Christ Child, who grasps a sacrificial lamb on the right. This painting is thought to have been acquired from the Barberini Palace in Rome, in 1790 by Richard Colt Hoare 2nd Bt (1758 – 1838). It was sold in the Stourhead Heirlooms sale 1883. After it re-emerged at Christie’s auction rooms in 2001 it was then acquired by the National Trust for Stourhead from the buyer of that sale; returning a departed picture to its earlier home.
Summary
Oil painting on vellum laid onto poplar panel, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, after Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452 - Amboise 1519). The original painting, oil on panel, 168.4 x 113 cm (126.3 cm with lateral extensions), is now in the Louvre, Paris. Saint Anne sits serenely in a landscape with her daughter, the Virgin Mary, sitting on her mother's lap whilst stretching towards her son, the Christ Child, who grasps a sacrificial lamb on the right.
Provenance
Thought to have been aquired from the Barberini Palace, Rome, in 1790 by Richard Colt Hoare 2nd Bt (1758 – 1838); thence by descent to Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare Bt (1824- 1894); the Stourhead Heirlooms sale, Christie's, London, 2 June 1883, lot 54; Charles Butler Esq. (1822-1910) at London & Warrenwood Hatfield; Christie's, London, 25 May 1911, lot 110; Agnew's, London; Ottilie, Viscountess Scarsdale; Christie's, London, 28 July 1938, lot 15; [...]; Christie's, South Kensington, 13th July 2001, lot 271, bought Kenneth Bolin; purchased by the National Trust in 2002
Credit line
Stourhead, The Hoare Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: catalogue entry of 1883 Heirlooms sale; FROM Y COLLECTION OF CHAS. BUTLER OF WARRENWOOD HATFIELD; label of Agnew’s (of London, Manchester, Paris, Berlin); Christie’s stencils: G[6?]2 [?]BV, G[6?]28GL & ?945? Reverse of the panel: J G 2 BV / G 2 8 GL / 2G
Makers and roles
after Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452 - Amboise 1519), artist
Exhibition history
La Sainte Anne, l'ultime chef-d'œuvre de Léonard de Vinci, Musée du Louvre, Paris , 2012