A pastoral scene with figures making music in a landscape with ruins/ A Pastoral Scene with Figures at a Well

Item

Creator
Circle of Jacapo Amigoni (1682-1752)
Title
A pastoral scene with figures making music in a landscape with ruins/
A Pastoral Scene with Figures at a Well
Description
Oil on canvas
14 ½ x 11 ½ in. (36.8 x 29.2 cm)

PAIR – Formerly attributed to Francesco Zuccarelli (1702-1788); reattributed to Amigoni by Christie’s.
Provenance
Mr. Kaufmann, California. [Victor D. Spark (1898-1991), New York, sold June 1942 to]; [Newhouse Galleries, New York, and Victor D. Spark, New York, as F. Zuccarelli, sold July 1942 to]; Robert W. Lyons (1895-1959), as F. Zuccarelli, returned via trade October 1942 to; [Newhouse Galleries, New York, Frederick Mont (Mondschein) (1894-1994), New York, and Victor D. Spark, New York, as Zuccarelli, sold May 1943 to]; Arthur William Sidney Herrington (1891-1970) and Nell C. Herrington (1891-1966), Indianapolis, Indiana, by inheritance to their son; Arthur Clarke Herrington (1931-2018), Maryland, bequest 2018 to; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.[1]
[1] Refer to the curatorial/object file.
Exhibitions
1964 – Champaign, IL, Krannert Art Museum, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.S. Herrington of Indianapolis, Indiana, European and American Paintings and Graphic Art; European, American, and Oriental Decorative Arts, 27 September – 25 October 1964, nos. 42, 43, illus.

1968 – Indianapolis, IN, Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, The Nell Clarke Herrington Memorial Exhibition, 7-28 April 1968, Bulletin/Catalogue, Spring 1968, pp. 20-21, illus.

1968 – Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Civic and Cultural Center, Selections from the Herrington Collection, Inaugural Exhibition of the Arts Museum, 3-19 May 1968, nos. 41, 42, illus.
Status
Under research