Lot 445
  • 445

Dutch School, early 17th Century

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Dutch School, early 17th century
  • The Flight of Aeneas, with the Fall of Troy beyond
  • oil on copper

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 4 March 1997, lot 301, as Jan Christian Micker;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's South Kensington, 9 July 2010, lot 51, as circle of Johann Liss.

Catalogue Note

The figure of Aeneas's son is copied from Federico Barocci's treatment of the same scene in the Galleria Borghese, Rome (see N. Turner, Federico Barocci, Paris 2000, p. 109, fig. 95).