Property from the Estate of Stanley Moss, Sold Without Reserve
After Diego Velázquez
Moenippus and Aesop
No reserve
Live auction begins on:
June 2, 02:00 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Bid
1 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of Stanley Moss, Sold Without Reserve
After Diego Velázquez
Moenippus;
Aesop
oil on canvas, a pair
each canvas: 69 ¼ by 32 ⅞ in.; 175.3 by 83.5 cm
each framed: 85 ¾ by 49 ⅛ in.; 217.8 by 124.8 cm
Anonymous sale, Englewood (New Jersey), Rose Hill Auction Gallery, 27 January 1998, lot 208 (as Anonymous, 18th century);
Where acquired by Stanley Moss.
These monumental canvases depicting Aesop and Moenippus are based on Velázquez's famous originals of circa 1639-1641.1 Believed to have been painted as decoration for the royal hunting lodge the Torre de la Parada, where they were recorded in a 1701 inventory, the originals now hang in the Prado Museum (inv. nos. P001206 and P001207).
1 see J. López-Rey, Velázquez Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne 1996, vol. II, pp. 226-29, cat. nos. 92 & 93, reproduced.