Workshop of Nicolas Régnier
Hero and Leander
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December 9, 03:41 PM GMT
估价
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
拍品信息
描述
Workshop of Nicolas Régnier
Maubeuge, Flanders circa 1590 - 1667 Venice
Hero and Leander
oil on canvas
unframed: 152.9 x 208 cm.; 60¼ x 81⅞ in.
framed: 172.9 x 229.4 cm.; 68⅛ x 90⅜ in.
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 14 July 1983, lot 376 (as After Nicolas Regnier);
Where acquired by the present owner.
Where acquired by the present owner.
A workshop version of the prime painting by Nicolas Régnier now in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.1 This scene depicts the tragic fate of the two lovers Hero and Leander. In her despair at finding the corpse of Leander on the shore of the Hellespont, Hero flung a woven mantle around herself and plunged to her death in the sea below.