Painting (St Cecilia)

ABDUA:30252

St Cecilia

Figure scene. St Cecilia seated, facing right, playing portable organ, and looking heavenward while angels and cherubim sing around her. Cecilia wears red and white diaphanous robe clasped with pearls at neck and shoulder, unframed. Has been cut from original frame and remounted. Paste-lined and attached to 4-member stretcher; lining remains sound with puncture and convex dent noted 21 5 cm from top and 50 5cm from right. Appearance poor because of layers of discoloured varnish. Extent of overpaints unknown.

The painting is a partial copy of the painting by Michele Rocca (Il Parmigiano) in the Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida. This portrait is included in the list of paintings in the Store in Marischal College compiled by Geroge Davidson on 9th March 1958. Recorded as St Cecilia, 18th Century. 4' high or over.

Michele Rocca (1675-1751) (copy of)

Oil on canvas

Aberdeen Musical Society

1750-1806

The Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF), 'Oil Paintings in Public Ownership - Aberdeen', 2013. LEMUR Database. AU Calendar (1887) no4;file; Once the property of the Aberdeen Musical Society, Note in museum's file: letter of 27/08/1806 states that the organ, music and other property of the Musical Society were deposited in the college, Knights notes :' St Cecili

(frame) H: 1610 mm W: 1340 mm ; (image) H: 1270 mm W: 1015 mm Th: 25 mm

Europe, Scotland, North-East, Aberdeen