Old Masters Evening Sale
Old Masters Evening Sale
Property from the Schuybroek Collection
Venus with Cupid stealing honey | 《採蜜的維納斯與丘比特》
Auction Closed
July 7, 06:31 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Schuybroek Collection
Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder, early 17th Century
Venus with Cupid stealing honey
bears Cranach's winged serpent device, and dated 1530
Inscribed in a panel upper left:
CVM PVER ALVEOLO FVRATVR MELLA CVPIDO
FVPANTI DIGITVM SEDVIA PVNXIT APIS
SIC ETIAM NOBIS BREVIS ET MORITVRA VOLVEAS
QVAM PETIMVS TRISTI MIXTA NOCET
oil on oak panel
37.8 x 25.2 cm.; 14⅞ x 9⅞ in.
舒布魯克典藏
老魯克斯・克拉納赫之追隨者,十七世紀初
《採蜜的維納斯與丘比特》
款識:具克拉納赫之翼蛇標記,紀年1530
藝術家於畫板題款CVM PVER ALVEOLO FVRATVR MELLA CVPIDO
FVPANTI DIGITVM SEDVIA PVNXIT APIS
SIC ETIAM NOBIS BREVIS ET MORITVRA VOLVEAS
QVAM PETIMVS TRISTI MIXTA NOCET(左上)
油彩橡木畫板
37.8 x 25.2 公分;14⅞ x 9⅞ 英寸
Looted by the Swedes after the sack of Prague, 1648;
Queen Christina of Sweden, and listed in the 1652 inventory of her collection as no. 167 or 217;
Ugglas of Forsmark;
Countess Elisabeth Björnstjerna;
C. M. Björnstjerna;
Marie Björnstjerna, Stockholm;
Count Carl Björnstjerna, in 1966;
Anonymous sale (‘The Property of a Gentleman’), London, Christie’s, 30 November 1979, lot 71 (as Lucas Cranach the Elder), for £75,000, where acquired by Jean Schuybroek.
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Christina Queen of Sweden, 29 June – 16 October 1966, cat. no. 1289, p. 513.
M.J. Friedländer and J. Rosenberg, The Paintings of Lucas Cranach, London 1978, p. 118, no. 246D;
J. Herbert (ed.), Christie's Review of the Season 1980, London 1980, p. 47, reproduced (as Lucas Cranach the Elder).