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Giacinto Gimignani Pistoia 1606 - 1681 Rome
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Description
- Giacinto Gimignani
- venus appearing to aeneas and achates
brushed on the reverse of the stretcher with an old collection mark and inventory number: SHK (?) 1690 and inscribed with a later inventory number on an old label: 33
- oil on canvas, in a carved and gilt wood frame
Provenance
Noble private collection, Rome, from which sold ("Proprietà di una Casa Principesca Romana"), Florence, Sotheby's, 21 October 1970, lot 66;
Whence believed to have been acquired by a member of the family of the present owners.
Literature
Advertisement in The Burlington Magazine, vol. CXII, no. 811, October 1970, p. xliii;
U. Fischer, Giacinto Gimignani (1606-1681), Doctoral thesis, Freiburg University 1973, pp. 156-7, cat. no. 58 (as location unknown).
U. Fischer, Giacinto Gimignani (1606-1681), Doctoral thesis, Freiburg University 1973, pp. 156-7, cat. no. 58 (as location unknown).
Catalogue Note
The story of Venus appearing to Aeneas and Achates is recounted by Virgil in the Aeneid (Chapter 2; verses 671-729). Venus appeared to her son Aeneas and his faithful companion Achates after they had been shipwrecked by a storm off Carthage, sent by the goddess Juno. The present work depicts the moment in which Venus appears to the Trojan warriors disguised as a huntress and directs them to Queen Dido's palace.