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Property from the SØR Rusche Collection
DANIEL VERTANGEN | An assembly of the Gods with the Apotheosis of Hercules
Lot Closed
September 19, 02:02 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Property from the SØR Rusche Collection
DANIEL VERTANGEN
Amsterdam circa 1600/1 - 1681/4
AN ASSEMBLY OF THE GODS WITH THE APOTHEOSIS OF HERCULES
signed lower right: D. Vertangen.
oil on oak panel, with an unidentified collector's red wax seal on the reverse
unframed: 39.1 x 48 cm.; 15½ x 18¾ in.
framed: 58.8 x 67 cm.; 23¼ x 26¼ in.
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Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 12 May 1992, lot 131, where acquired.
W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M. J. Bok et al, At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 111, cat. no. 112, reproduced in colour;
H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 4, Historien und Allegorien, Münster/Hamburg/London 2010, pp. 436-40, cat. no. 75, reproduced in colour.
This painting relates closely to a work of the same subject with a similar composition, by Cornelis van Poelenburch, in the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen.1 Vertangen's version is in reverse, and although the figures are all slightly different, both compositions share the same diagonal structure of the placement of the Gods in the foreground, with other figures gathered in the distance visible through parting clouds.