The Muse of Ovid delivering a Feather taken from the Wing of Love
Antonio Zucchi, RA (Venice 1726 - Rome 1796)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1767
Materials
Oil on canvas
Place of origin
London
Collection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 773417
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Muse of Ovid delivering a Feather taken from the Wing of Love by Antonio Zucchi, RA (Venice 1726 – Rome 1796), 1767. Left of chimney piece above bookcase. A female sits on a rock in a landscape with trees behind on the right attended by putto angels, one of which is draped by a red ribbon and has had his one of hsi wings plucked out. The others are besdie the man who is reaching out for the feather on the left. The Roman poet Ovid was famous for writing Amores and Ars Amatoria as well as Metamorphoses. See 'Sappho giving Anacreon a Feather from Cupid's Wing' at Nostell: NT 960063.1.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Osterley Park by George Francis Child-Villiers (1910–1998), 9th Earl of Jersey in 1949
Credit line
Osterley Park, The Jersey Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Antonio Zucchi, RA (Venice 1726 - Rome 1796), artist