A Gentleman’s Cabinet of Curiosities | The Collection of the late Naim Attallah, CBE
A Gentleman’s Cabinet of Curiosities | The Collection of the late Naim Attallah, CBE
Putti cavorting
Lot Closed
November 23, 05:25 PM GMT
Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
Lot Details
Description
After Hendrick van Balen the Elder
Putti cavorting
oil on copper
unframed: 28.2 x 32.5 cm.; 11⅛ x 12¾ in.
framed: 47.9 x 51.9 cm.; 18⅞ x 20½ in.
The prototype for the present lot was sold at Sotheby's, London, 30 October 1997, lot 190. Comparable compositions of the same subject by Hans Rottenhammer also exist, for example one in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (inv. no. 753).1
1 https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/Qm45R9yxNo/hans-rottenhammer-d-ae/kinderreigen