Master Sculpture from Four Millennia

Southern Netherlandish, Malines, late 16th century

Hearing and Sight

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 EUR

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Description

Southern Netherlandish, Malines, late 16th century

Hearing and Sight

a pair of albaster reliefs, with gilt highlights, in a gilt frame; set in carved wood frames

gilt frames: 16.5 by 19.5cm., 6½ by 7⅝in.

frames: 61 by 44cm., 24 by 17⅜in.

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Portuguese private collection.

The compositions of these two reliefs are inspired by the series of the Five Senses engraved by Cornelis Cort (1533–1578), after Frans Floris (published by Hieronymus Cock in Antwerp in 1561).

A set of three similar reliefs in Malines alabaster representing Touch (“Tactus”), Taste (“Gustus”) and Hearing (“Auditus”), inspired by the same series, are now in the Grand Curtius Museum in Liège (inv. I5428, I5429 and I5430). Another relief illustrating the allegory of Smell (“Odoratus”) is in the Louvre (inv. OA 218).

RELATED LITERATURE

M. Debaene (ed.), Alabaster Sculpture in Europe 1300-1650, exhibition catalogue, M Museum, Leuven, 14 October 2022-26 February 2023, pp. 219-220, cat. 82.

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