Property from a British Private Collection
Follower of Frans Francken the Younger
The marriage of Neptune and Amphitrite, with the Feast of the Gods
Auction is live
Lot closed
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Sold
10,795 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a British Private Collection
Follower of Frans Francken the Younger
The marriage of Neptune and Amphitrite, with the Feast of the Gods
oil on oak panel, figure studies painted on the reverse
unframed: 44.7 x 61.6 cm.; 17⅝ x 24¼ in.
framed: 55.6 x 72.5 cm.; 21⅞ x 28½ in.
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 29 October 1986, lot 32 (as Frans Francken the Elder), for £3,520;
Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 24 April 2018, lot 217 (as circle of Jan Brueghel the Elder and Frans Francken the Younger), for €37,500;
Where acquired.
This composition repeats, with some variation in the sky, a monogrammed painting by Frans Francken the Younger (1581–1642) recorded in the Rosch collection, Hamburg, in 1935, and with Kunsthaus Abels, Cologne, in 1942.1
1 45.5 x 65.5 cm.; U. Harting, Frans Francken der Jüngere (1581–1642), Freren 1989, p. 311, no. 282, reproduced.
You May Also Like
