Live auction - Lot 11
[Flemish school]
The Good and the Bad Passions.
VAN VEEN, Otto (after)
Hammer price: €
120
€ 120 / 150
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Lot description
2nd half 17th c
Drawing, pen and brown ink over black chalk, 32 x 27 cm, laid paper with watermark (Strasbourg lily, Heawood: 1743), unsigned (horiz. centerfold, several sm. creases and stains).
Partly finished allegorical scene with Hercules holding a club and lion's pelt leaving a room, surrounded by putti engaged in different activities, some of them fighting, others playing sports or sleeping. After an engraving by Pieter de Jode, based upon a design by Otto Van Veen.
Ref. Hollstein IX:95.
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