Property from a European Private Collection
School of Fontainebleau, 16th century
Peace embracing Justice with a landscape with a ruined amphitheatre beyond
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Estimate
50,000 - 80,000 GBP
Bid
35,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a European Private Collection
School of Fontainebleau, 16th century
Peace embracing Justice with a landscape with a ruined amphitheatre beyond
oil on panel
unframed: 85.9 x 120.4 cm.; 33⅞ x 47⅜ in.
framed: 100.5 x 134.5 cm.; 39⅝ x 53 in.
Probably Pedro Bosch, Madrid, by 1892;
Neger collection, Paris, by 1952;
Anonymous sale, Monaco, Christie's, 7 December 1987, lot 73;
Where acquired by the previous owner;
By whom sold, London, Christie's, 8 December 2004, lot 21;
Where acquired by the present owner.
Probably Madrid, Palacio de Biblioteca y Museos, Exposición Histórico-Europea, 1892–93 (lent by Pedro Bosch);
Naples, Palazzo Reale, Fontainebleau e la maniera italiana, 26 July – 12 October 1952, no. 48 (lent by Neger).
F. Bologna and R. Causa (eds), Fontainebleau e la maniera italiana, exh. cat., Naples 1952, p. 29, no. 48, reproduced pl. 46.
This composition, known through a wide number of versions, was evidently a popular image. Similar version include that by Maarten de Vos in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg,1 and another, attributed to Jacob de Backer and his workshop, at the Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf.2 Given these similarities, it is likely that the present panel is the work of a Flemish artist working at Fontainebleau.
1 Inv. no. 7724; oil on panel, 118 x 174.5 cm.; https://www.akg-images.co.uk/search/AAAAAAEA3LADAAAAAAAAAQ==
2 Inv. no. M 209; oil on panel; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacob_de_Backer_und_Werkstatt_-_Die_Allegorie_%22Kuss_von_Gerechtigkeit_und_Frieden%22_um_1580.jpg
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