Virgil reading the Aeneid to the Emperor Augustus and the Fainting Octavia
Antonio Zucchi, RA (Venice 1726 - Rome 1796)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1768 - 1770
Materials
Oil on paper laid onto plaster
Place of origin
England
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872169.2
Summary
Oil painting on paper laid onto plaster, Virgil reading the Aeneid to the Emperor Augustus and the Fainting Octavia by Antonio Zucchi, RA (Venice 1726 – Rome 1796), 1768-1770. One of a set of four decorative ceiling paintings by Antonio Zucchi, of segmental shape. Zucchi painted the subject again at Nostell Priory, Yorkshire, NT 960060.10 and at Osterley Park, Middlesex, NT 773418.
Provenance
Accepted with Saltram house and contents 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