Gérard de Lairesse

Mercury Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus

Auction Closed

June 9, 01:57 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 EUR

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Description

Property from a European Private Collection

Gérard de Lairesse

Liege 1640 - 1711 Amsterdam

Mercury Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus

Oil on panel

Signed lower right G Lairesse

39,3 x 45,8 cm ; 15½ by 18 in.

(Possibly) Collection A. van Kinschop;

His sale, Rotterdam, 20 September 1756 (Lugt 921), lot 67;

Anonymous sale, Dorotheum, Vienne, 23 April 1928, lot 49 (as Attribued to Adriaen van der Werff);

Anonymous sale, Christie’s, London, 19 July 1926, lot 99;

Anonymous sale, Bukowski’s, Stockholm, 13 December 1929, lot 97 (as Attributed to Nicolas Verkolje);

A. Amundson, Stora Frösunda Manor House (South Wing), Solna;

By descent to his widow G. Amundson (d. in 1971), Solna;

By descent to her daughter B. Enger (d. in 1994), Solna;

Her sale, Stora Frösunda Manor House (South Wing), Solna, 13 May 1995, lot 289 (as 17^th Century School);

With Emmanuel Moatti, Paris;

Where acquired by the present owner.

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