Girls dancing amid Classical Ruins
Antonio Zucchi, RA (Venice 1726 - Rome 1796)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1779 - 1781
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1200 x 1063 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872168.7
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Girls dancing amid Classical Ruins by Antonio Zucchi, RA (Venice 1726 – Rome 1796), 1781. One of a set of 9 decorative wall panels by Zucchi. In white painted carved or moulded frames designed by Robert Adam and fitted as wall fixtures. The three frames surmounting the doors are of plaster and the remainder of wood.
Provenance
Accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the National Trust in 1957
Makers and roles
Antonio Zucchi, RA (Venice 1726 - Rome 1796), artist Robert Adam (Kirkcaldy 1728 - London 1792), designer