The Collection of Khalil Rizk

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Lot 324
  • 324

Gerard Hoet

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Gerard Hoet
  • The Death of Cleopatra

  • oil on canvas

  • 22 3/4 in. by 27 1/2 in.
  • 57.7 cm by 69.8 cm
signed lower right G. Hoet

Provenance

Lepke, Berlin, February 24, 1903, lot 56
Fred. A. van Braam, Amsterdam, February 2-3, 1944, lot 18
Christie's, London, July 28, 1961, lot 173
Christie's, London, Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Gentleman"), April 7, 1995, lot 25

Catalogue Note

This painting is very likely the pendant to a work by Hoet in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, depicting The Banquet of Cleopatra. The Getty picture, which has the same dimensions, portrays a similar multifigured composition in an elaborate architectural interior and depicts the figure of Cleopatra in the same deep blue drapery embroidered with gold. The Getty painting, which is unsigned, also has a German provenance and was acquired by the Getty from the Munich dealer Julius Böhler in 1969.