Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher
Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher
Pauwels Franck, called Paolo Fiammingo
Allegory of Music or Hearing: Apollo and the Muses on Mount Parnassus
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December 9, 03:37 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Pauwels Franck, called Paolo Fiammingo
Antwerp (?) circa 1540 - 1596 Venice
Allegory of Music or Hearing: Apollo and the Muses on Mount Parnassus
oil on canvas
unframed: 109.8 x 160.1 cm.; 43¼ x 63 in.
framed: 122.6 x 174.9 cm.; 48¼ x 68⅞ in.
The present composition is known in three other versions. The prime, and largest version is in the Fugger collection at Schloss Kirchheim, near Augsburg, where Fiammingo was commissioned to execute a number of works during the 1580s; another autograph, smaller version is recorded as in the collection of Pietro Scarpa, Venice;1 and a painting of inferior quality, catalogued as Attributed to Fiammingo, was sold at the Dorotheum, Vienna, 9 June 1999, lot 103. The present painting contains noticeably more detail than in the Scarpa picture, including to the embellishment in the drapery of the figure seated on the right.
We are grateful to Dr Andrew John Martin for endorsing the attribution to Fiammingo on the basis of a digital image.
1 S.M. Rinaldi, 'Paolo Fiammingo', in Saggi Memorie di Stora dell’arte, vol. II, 1978, p. 68, no. 36, reproduced fig 24: