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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 5, 2007 | Sotheby's | London | Old Master Paintings - Evening | 18 | $****** - ****** | The Rape of Ganymede |
paintings
33.5 x 24.5 cm (13.19 x 9.65 in)
oil on panel
inscribed '3 1/2', upper edge
Count Charles de Proli
His sale, Antwerp, Grange, 23(?)ff. July 1785, lot 6, sold (together with an oil sketch for Saturn devouring his children) for 61 florins to De Loose, Brussels, according to Rooses (see Literature, below)
Offered, François Pauwels (deceased) sale, Brussels, De Marneffe, 22 August 1803, lot 67 (together with the oil sketch for Saturn devouring his children)
Richard Cosway, R.A. (1742-1821), Schomberg House, London
His sale, London, Stanley's, 17 May 1821, lot 65
Private collection, Lugano.
Tokyo, Gallery Takashimaya, Yamaguchi, Prefectoral Museum; Tsu, Prefectoral Museum; and Kyoto, Gallery Takashimaya, Pierre-Paul Rubens, 8 August 1985 - 20 January 1986, no. 59, illustrated in color p. 144; Edinburgh, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, London, National Portrait Gallery, Richard and Maria Cosway, Regency artists of taste and fashion, 1996, no. 190.
M. Rooses, Rubens, vol. III, 1890, pp. 19, 32-33; S. Alpers, The Decoration of the Torre de la Parada, in Corpus Rubenianum, Ludwig Burchard, vol. IX, 1971, pp. 211-12, cat. no. 24a; M. Jaffé, "The Oil Sketches of Rubens", in Apollo, vol. CXV, no. 239, January 1982, pp. 61-65, reproduced fig. 1 and in color plate VIII; Pierre-Paul Rubens, exhibition catalog, Tokyo, Gallery Takashimaya, Yamaguchi, Prefectoral Museum; Tsu, Prefectoral Museum; and Kyoto, Gallery Takashimaya, 8 August 1985 - 20 January 1986, cat. no. 59, reproduced in color on p. 144; M. Jaffé, Rubens, Milan 1990, p. 357, cat. no. 1271, reproduced; S. Lloyd, Richard and Maria Cosway, Regency artists of taste and fashion, exhibition catalogue, Edinburgh, Scottish National Portrait Gallery; and London, National Portrait Gallery, 1995-96, p. 130, cat. no. 190, reproduced plate 79.
