Property from a Private Collection
Sebastiano Conca
The Rape of Europa
Auction Closed
July 2, 12:45 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
Sebastiano Conca
Gaeta 1680–1764 Naples
The Rape of Europa
oil on canvas
unframed: 75.2 x 100 cm.; 29⅝ x 39⅜ in.
framed: 86.4 x 111 cm.; 34 x 43¾ in.
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Lady'), London, Christie's, 13 May 1988, lot 14;
Anonymous sale, Munich, Neumeister, 7 December 1988, lot 425 (as Roman School, 18th century, Sebastiano Conca?);
Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 14–22 March 1989, lot 560;
Private collection, Vienna;
Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 7 April 2006, lot 52, for €78,000.
G. Sestieri, Michele Rocca e la pittura rococò a Roma, Milan 2004, pp. 202–03, no. 17b reproduced (as Sebastiano Conca).