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Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff, Sold Without Reserve

Jan van Neck

Venus grants her son Aeneas immortality

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5,000 - 7,000 GBP

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4,200 GBP

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Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff, Sold Without Reserve


Jan van Neck

Naarden 1634–1714 Amsterdam

Venus grants her son Aeneas immortality


signed and dated lower left: J v Neck / 1683 . f

oil on oak panel

unframed: 50 x 72.6 cm.; 19⅝ x 28⅝ in.

framed: 72.5 x 95.1 cm.; 28½ x 37½ in.

W.F. Fruin, The Hague, 1957;

With Galerie Sanct Lucas, The Hague, 1964;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 29 January 1965, lot 58, for 95 guineas, to Singer;

With J. Singer, London;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 21 July 1989, lot 123;

With C.P.A. & G.R. Castendijk, Rotterdam, by 1990;

With K.J Müllenmeister, Solingen;

Dr Hinrich Bischoff (1936–2005), by 1993;

Thence by inheritance.

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, on loan until March 2025.

C. Felgner, in Das Kabinett des Sammlers. Gemälde vom XV. bis XVIII. Jahrhundert, E. Mai (ed.), Cologne 1993, pp. 185–87, no. 74, reproduced in colour.