New paintings at Waddesdon Manor
The collections at Waddesdon have been enhanced by the recent acquisition of four major paintings, by Callet, Chardin and Panini, described here by Juliet Carey.
Juliet Carey, Monday, 25th August 2008
Notes
I would like to thank Anne Dulau, Anna Grundberg, Alastair Laing, Edouard Kopp, Opher Mansour, Pippa Shirley and Christoph Martin Vogtherr for help in the preparation of this article. David Marshall’s assistance with the Paninis was particularly generous. He sent me copies of hard-to-find texts and offered many comments upon which I have gratefully drawn. The section on the Callet is based on a leaflet produced for visitors to Waddesdon, written by Selma Schwartz and Pippa Shirley, partly based on work by Sarah Medlam and Christian Baulez.
1 See Apollo, vol. CXXXIX, No. 386 (April 1994) and Apollo, vol.CLXVI, No 545, July/August 2007, which were devoted to Waddesdon Manor and the Rothschild Collection; Michael Hall, Waddesdon Manor: The Heritage of a Rothschild House, New York, 2002; Ferdinand de Rothschild, ‘Bric-à-Brac. A Rothschild’s Memoir of Collecting’, Apollo, vol. CLXVI, no. 545, July/August 2007, pp. 50-77.
2 Commissioned by Louis-Jules-Bourbon Mazarini-Mancini, duc de Nivernais (1716-98); by descent; acquired 2007 by a Rothschild Family Trust. Bibliography: Ferdinando Arisi, ‘Due inediti di straordinario interesse di Gian Paolo Panini, commissionati dall’Ambasciatore francese a Roma nel 1751’, Strenna Piacentina, 2005, pp. 113-117 (ill. pp. 92-95, plates 74-77).
3 The principal sources are: Giovanni Reffini, Descrizione della festa, Rome, 1751; Diario Ordinario, no. 5361, 27 November 1751, Rome, 1751; F. Clementi, Il Carnevale Romano nelle Cronache Contemporanee, Parte 1. Dalle Origini al. Sec. XVII. Parte II. Sec. XVIII-XIX, Città di Castello, 1938, pp. 89-99; M. Fagiolo, Corpus delle Feste a Roma. 2. Il Settecento e L’Ottocento, Rome, 1997, p. 150. I am grateful to David Marshall for sending me copies.
4 See Bent Sørensen, ‘Panini and Ghezzi: the portraits in the Louvre “Musical performance at the Teatro Argentina”’, The Burlington Magazine, vol CXLIV, no 1193 (August 2002), pp. 467-74.
5 Correspondence with the author, May 2008.
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