Niobe

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Niobe
Niobe
Niobe
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (Felton Bequest, 1926)
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Artist
James Ross (1745-1821) after Wilson
Title
Niobe
Date
1816 [?]
Dimensions
Metric: 361 x 450 mm
Imperial: 14 3/16 x 17 11/16 in.
Accession Number
2862/3
Wilson Online Reference
E67
Description
Eleven of Niobe's children are killed in a dramatic, lightning-filled landscape. Wilson's stormy setting emphasises the horror of the narrative by the broken trees, reeds bent with the wind, tumultuous seas, the fire in the distant town, the stormy skies, with lightning striking the mountain and the lurid light on the distant horizon.
Provenance
Felton Bequest 1926
Signature/inscription
[1] Inscribed in pencil, lower left: 'R Wilson'
[2] Inscribed in pencil, lower centre: '1816'
[3] Inscribed in pencil, lower right: 'J Ross'
[4] Inscribed in ink, lower right: 'After Wootton for [illegible]'
[5] Inscribed in pencil, lower right: 'Proof before all letters'
[6] Inscribed in pencil, lower right: '£5.5.'
Collectors' marks
[1] Museum stamp recto, lower centre: NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA 2862/3
Related Drawings
D53/35 Studies and Designs done in Rome in the Year 1752, p. 35, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Related Prints
E11 William Woollett after Wilson, Niobe, National Museum Wales, Cardiff and other impressions
E65 William Pengree Sherlock after Wilson, Niobe, The British Museum
E69 J.H. Wright after Wilson, Niobe, The British Museum
Related Paintings
P90 The Destruction of the Children of Niobe, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
P90A The Destruction of the Children of Niobe, Private Collection at Ashridge, England
More Information
James Ross (1745-1821) was a painter of hunting scenes and printmaker who engraved landscapes and views.
Condition/Conservation
Unmounted. Discoloured, stained and with some repaired tears.
Updated by Compiler
2017-11-20 00:00:00