Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Property from a Private Collection
WILLIAM ETTY, R.A. | VENUS AND HER SATELLITES
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July 29, 01:05 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
WILLIAM ETTY, R.A.
York 1787 - 1849
VENUS AND HER SATELLITES
oil on mahogany panel
unframed: 78 x 110.5 cm.; 30¾ x 43¾ in.
framed: 103 x 134 cm.; 40½ x 52¾ in.
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Possibly John Hargreaves;
His sale, London, Christie’s, 5 June 1873, lot 285 (as 'The Toilet of Venus'), for 420 guineas to Agnew;
With Chapman Bros.;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 8 December 1913, lot 67, for 20 guineas to Mitchell;
With Galeria de Londres, Buenos Aires;
Domingo Edwards II, Santiago, Chile, by 1935, and by descent;
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 22 February 1989, lot 47.
K. Baetjer, British Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575–1875, New York 2009, p. 254, note 1 (under the entry for Etty’s The Three Graces), erroneously described as an oil sketch and the location of Sotheby’s 1989 sale incorrectly given as London).
Related Literature
W. Etty, ‘Autobiography of William Etty, R.A., in Letters addressed to a Relative’, in Art-Journal, vol. 11, 1849, p. 40;
A. Gilchrist, Life of William Etty, R.A., London 1858, vol. 2, pp. 30–32 and 337;
D. Farr, William Etty, London 1958, pp. 72–74, 91 and 156, cat. no. 100 (i), reproduced pl. 56;
C. Hartup et al., Museo de Arte de Ponce Collection Catalogue, vol. 1 (The British Collection), Ponce 2012.