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Mastering Materials: The Collection of Joel M. Goldfrank

Bartholomäus Spranger

Cupid Carving his Bow

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May 22, 04:37 PM GMT

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40,000 - 60,000 USD

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Mastering Materials: The Collection of Joel M. Goldfrank

Bartholomäus Spranger

Antwerp 1546 - 1611 Prague

Cupid Carving his Bow


oil on copper

copper: 9 ¾ by 7 ¼ in.; 24.8 by 18.4 cm

framed: 14 by 11 ¼ in.; 35.6 by 28.6 cm

Anonymous sale, London, Philips, 15 December 1998, lot 161 (as attributed to Joseph Heintz the Elder);

With Hall & Knight, London and New York (as School of Prague, sixteenth cetnury);

From whom acquired by the late collector.

E. Fučíková and L. Konečný, "Two Late Paintings by Bartholomeus Spranger", in Studia Rudolphina: Bulletin of the Research Center for Visual Art and Culture in the Age of Rudolf II, vol. 12-13 (2013): 103-111;

L. Konečný, "Cupid Carving His Bow" from Parmiaginino to Rubens, in: Notes in the History of Art , Fall 2014, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Fall 2014), pp. 24- 31.