- Title:
- Saint Anthony of Padua with the Infant Christ
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Italian
- Brief description:
- Saint Anthony of Padua, wearing the grey habit of the Franciscan Order to which he belonged, stands before the infant Christ. A white lily, Saint Anthony’s attribute, lies at Christ’s feet and the saint splays his hands in a gesture of adoration as Christ reaches out to embrace him. The Christ Child’s upturned feet and flying drapery indicate that he is floating, not standing. Saint Anthony had a vision of Christ appearing on his open book -- its pages are roughly sketched here.The vaporous brushwork, which creates this painting’s hazy atmosphere, is typical of Bazzani’s technique. The paint is swiftly applied and Bazzani's colours are subdued. The light, flickering brushwork is inspired by Venetian eighteenth-century artists like Francesco Guardi, whose atmospheric effects of light and colour Bazzani emulated, and when the painting was presented to the National Gallery in 1922 it was attributed to the Venetian painter Jacopo Amigoni.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1922-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1922
- Date - latest:
- 1922
- Acquisition source:
- Francis Denis Lycett Green
- Associated concept:
- religious imagery
- Associated concept:
- St Anthony of Padua
- Credit line:
- Presented by F.D. Lycett Green, through the Art Fund, 1922
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 3/26/874/451/mid_N-3663-00-000009.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 85.10
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 69.00
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; Italian (Mantuan)
- Object production date:
- probably 1740-50
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1740
- Date - latest:
- 1750
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1725-49
- Date - period:
- 1750-74
- Object production person:
- Giuseppe Bazzani
- Person's birth date:
- 1690
- Person's death date:
- 1769
- Object production place:
- Italy
- Other number:
- NG3663
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0GCP-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG3663
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-04RB-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng33663
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Owner:
- Alfred de Rothschild
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- baroque
- Style:
- rococo
- Style:
- neoclassical
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 11-12
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Eighteenth Century Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 7-8
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 25
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
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