A Peasant Woman Fainting from the Bite of a Serpent
Oil Painting
1831 (painted)
1831 (painted)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Eastlake lived in Rome from 1816 to 1830. The reverse of the painting bears his inscription: ‘Nina Ranieri, a young peasant woman of the Roman State, while kneeling before a chapel of the Madonna was bit by a viper: she sank into a lethargy in a short time and, it is said, died two days after.’
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | A Peasant Woman Fainting from the Bite of a Serpent (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Oil on canvas |
| Brief description | Oil painting entitled 'A Peasant Woman Fainting from the Bite of a Serpent' by Charles Lock Eastlake. British School, 1831. |
| Physical description | Oil on canvas depicted a woman who has fainted in the street after being bitten by a serpent. She lies in the arms of an older woman whilst a young boy looks on anxiously. |
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| Style | |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'C L Eastlake/1831' (Signed and dated by the artist, lower right) |
| Credit line | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Object history | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | Eastlake lived in Rome from 1816 to 1830. The reverse of the painting bears his inscription: ‘Nina Ranieri, a young peasant woman of the Roman State, while kneeling before a chapel of the Madonna was bit by a viper: she sank into a lethargy in a short time and, it is said, died two days after.’ |
| Bibliographic reference | Parkinson, R., Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 75-76 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | FA.70[O] |
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| Record created | June 19, 2003 |
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