The Four Seasons: Summer
Rosalba Carriera (Venice 1673 - Venice 1757)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1700 - 1757
Materials
Pastel on paper
Measurements
915 x 740 mm
Place of origin
Venice
Order this imageCollection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 781632
Summary
Pastel on paper, The Four Seasons: Summer by Rosalba Carriera (Venice 1675 - Venice 1757).One of a set of 4 pastel portraits (NT 781631-781634). A pastel portrait of a woman, the personification of Summer, half-draped in an orange-pink shawl, her blond hair styled with a blue ribbon and flowers and wheat. She holds a basket of flowers and holds up a fig. See Neil Jeffares, Rosalba Carriera, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, London, 2006; online edition, (http://www.pastellists.com/Articles/Carriera2.pdf), no. J.21.1217.
Provenance
The bequest of Margaret (Anderson) McEwan, The Hon. Mrs Ronald - later Dame Margaret - Henry Fulke Greville, DBE (1863-1942) from probate records linked with the donation of the property to the National Trust in 1943. This item found on the record for Polesden Lacey pictures, drawings etc., the Red Bedroom, page 138.
Makers and roles
Rosalba Carriera (Venice 1673 - Venice 1757), artist