Roman Wall Frescoes of the Villa Negroni, Rome: Venus shaking a Tree from which Cupids are falling (after Anton Raphael Mengs)
Angelo Campanella (Rome 1746 - Rome 1811)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1980 - 1999
Materials
Cardboard
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 849579.1
Summary
Print, engraving, Roman Wall Frescoes of the Villa Negroni, Rome: Venus shaking a Tree from which Cupids are falling. Reproduction of a design for the Pompeian Room, (after Anton Raphael Mengs) by Angelo Campanella (Rome 1746 - Rome 1811). In display rack. One of three on display. "Venus with putti", wall design from the Villa Negroni, Rome, Room C. Engraved by Angelo Campanella, and published by Camillo Buti, 1778. The Villa Negroni was a Roman villa, found in the extensive grounds of the former Villa Montalto-Peretti, near the Baths of the Diocletian and excavated in 1777; its rooms contained well-preserved frescoes which were removed by the English dealer Henry Tresham and are now lost.
Provenance
Bought in 1999 from the artist Hengs.
Makers and roles
Angelo Campanella (Rome 1746 - Rome 1811), engraver (printmaker) after Anton Raphael Mengs (Aussig 1728 – Rome 1779), original artist