After Claude Mellan

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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Description

After Claude Mellan
St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness
oil on canvas
210 by 114 cm

Provenance

Anton Rogers, Vienna;
Acquired from the above by Prince Alois I. of Liechtenstein (1759-1805) in 1801.

Literature

Sammlungskatalog, manuscript, 1805, no. 332 (as by Claude Mellan);
J. Falke, Katalog der Fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Bilder-Galerie im Gartenpalais der Rossau zu Wien, Vienna 1873, p. 44, no. 366 (as Claude Mellan);
J. Falke, Katalog der fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Bilder-Galerie im Gartenpalais der Rossau zu Wien, Vienna 1885, p. 39, no. 272 (as Claude Mellan);
G. K. Nagler, Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon, Vol. 10, Linz 1907, p. 119 (as Claude Mellan);
M. Huggler, in: U. Thieme - F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, Vol. 24, Leipzig 1930, p. 365 (as Claude Mellan).

Catalogue Note

The design follows Mellan's own engraving of 1629 dedicated to Cardinal Francesco Barberini (see M. Préaud, Inventaire du fonds français: Graveurs du xviie siècle. Calude Mellan, Paris 1988, p.71, no. 84, reproduced).