Italianate Landscape with Elijah and the Widow of Sarepta
manner of Cornelis van Poelenburch (Utrecht 1594/5 - Utrecht 1667)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1594 - 1667
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
370 x 470 mm
Place of origin
Netherlands
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 959424
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Italianate Landscape with Elijah and the Widow of Sarepta, manner of Cornelis van Poelenburch (Utrecht 1594/5 - Utrecht 1667). Cornelius Poelenburgh was one of the first Dutch artists to specialise in painting landscapes in the Italianate style. This painting represents the meeting of the Old Testament prophet, Elijah with a widow and her son gathering sticks outside the the city of Sarepta. The widow gave Elijah food and drink and, in return, he cured her son, who was mortally ill. The carved wooden frame is one of 41 made by Thomas Chippendale specifically for Lady Winn's Blue Dressing Room in 1767.
Provenance
Acquired by the 5th Baronet in the 18th century; appears in the 1806 inventory, under the 'Blue Dressing Room' [present Little Dining Room], as 'A landscape and figures - style of Polemburg'; and thence by descent until purchased by the National Trust by private treaty sale from Lord St Oswald in 2010.
Credit line
Nostell Priory, The St Oswald Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
manner of Cornelis van Poelenburch (Utrecht 1594/5 - Utrecht 1667) , artist Thomas Chippendale (Otley 1718 - London 1779) , framemaker