Capriccio of Figures dancing amongst Classical Ruins, with a Statue of the Rape of Proserpine
Antonio Zucchi, RA (Venice 1726 - Rome 1796)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1775 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1550 x 2970 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 960065.2
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Capriccio of Figures dancing amongst Classical Ruins, with a Statue of the Rape of Proserpine, by Antonio Zucchi, RA (Venice 1726 – Rome 1796), signed and dated 1775. One of a pair of Italianate landscapes with figures dancing amongst classical ruins. Commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese Bernini's Rape of Prosepina by Pluto was finished in 1622 and given to Cardinal Ludovisi who took it to his villa in Rome until it was re-acquired and entered the Villa Borghese in 1908.
Provenance
Commissioned from Antonio Zucchi by Sir Rowland Winn, 5th Bt. (1739-1785); mentioned in a letter from Zucchi to the 5th Bt., dated 16 August 1766, in which he enclosed ‘the Plan of your Saloon numbered how the pictures are to be placed.’; thence by descent; accepted in lieu of tax by H M Treasury and transferred to the National Trust in 1986.
Credit line
Nostell Priory, The St Oswald Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Antonio Zucchi, RA (Venice 1726 - Rome 1796), artist
References
Sands 2011: Frances Sands, 'The Art of Collaboration: Antonio Zucchi at Nostell Priory', The Georgian Group Journal, vol.XIX, 2011, pp.106-119