Landscape with, possibly, Echo and Narcissus
attributed to Johannes Glauber (Utrecht 1646 - Schoonhoven 1726)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1710 - circa 1720
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
457 x 381 mm (18 x 15 in)
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Saltram, Devon
NT 872532
Summary
Oil painting on canvas (once stretched as oval, in a frame with octagonal opening), Landscape with, possibly, Echo and Narcissus, attributed to Johannes Glauber (Utrecht 1646 – Schoonhoven 1726), circa 1710-20. One of a pair of paintings, one possibly depicting the story of Echo and Narcisssus related in Ovid's Metamorphoses 3:339-510 and the other Nymph and River God. A nymph standing on the bank of a stream; a youth seated on the opposite bank is, possibly, putting on a sandal, apparently regarding his reflection in the water. Small figures in the foreground of a wooded classical landscape.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust as part of the endowment by Montagu Brownlow Parker, 5th Earl of Morley (1878-1962)
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
attributed to Johannes Glauber (Utrecht 1646 - Schoonhoven 1726), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749) , artist