The Shipwreck of Aristippus (Aristippus and his Companions driven on Shore after being shipwrecked and by some Mathematical Lines on the Sand know that the Land is inhabited)
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 773420
Summary
Oil painting on canvas (left of centre), The Shipwreck of Aristippus (Aristippus and his Companions driven on Shore after being shipwrecked and by some Mathematical Lines on the Sand know that the Land is inhabited) by Antonio Zucchi, RA (Venice 1726 – Rome 1796), 1767. Signns of a shipwreck are still visible on the left. On eman is still swimming ashore and another clings to an uprooted trunk of a tree. Aristippus stands in red in the centre with four companions to the left. On the right in the foreground, marked in the sand, is an encircled triangle. See also painting at Saltram NT 872168.1.
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