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Lodewijk Toeput, called Il Pozzoserrato
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description
- Lodewijk Toeput, called Il Pozzoserrato
- The Flight into Egypt
- oil on canvas
Provenance
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 22 May 1997, lot 44, where acquired by the present owner.
Catalogue Note
The arch pictured here in the centre of the composition is based on that beneath the calidarium in the Baths of Caracalla, Rome. Pozzoserrato presumably studied the ruin on his only visit to Rome in 1581, before he settled in Treviso. The artist employed the same arch in reverse in two drawings (Hermitage, St. Petersburg), used for a series of prints based on Aesop's Fables.1
We are grateful to Professor Bernard Aikema for endorsing the attribution to Il Pozzoserrato on the basis of a digital image.
1. See S. M. Rinaldi and D. Luciani (eds), Toeput a Treviso, 1988, pp. 67 and 85, reproduced figs 4 and 15.