Showing posts with label Adam and Eve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adam and Eve. Show all posts
Saturday, 28 March 2015
After Marten de Vos, the Creation of Adam and Eve
In a generally quite interesting auction, Piasa in Paris sells on 2 April 2015 a Flemish School, ca. 1620 "Forest landscape with the creation of Adam and the creation of Eve", a large canvas (102 by 158cm) estimated at 2,000 to 3,000 Euro. UPDATE: not sold.
It is actually a copy after Marten de Vos: the original has all the above plus the creation of the animals. The above is a late 16th century engraving by De Sadeler after De Vos. As usual, the painting follows the engraving (direction), so the original painting was probably in reverse, and obviously better. I haven't found any indication on whether the original painting is still known, it must have been a good one judging from the engraving.
UPDATE: again for sale at Sequana, Rouen, France on 14 October 2017 with a more generic "17th century Flemish" attribution: it has an estimate of only 700 to 1,000 Euro, which seems to be a realistic price (even as a copy, I can't see this fetching less than 700 Euro, and if you have a daughter who likes unicorns and old paintings, this is the best gift you could imagine ;-) )
UPDATE 2: sold for 1200 Euro, as communicated by AuctionRadar. Fair price for this copy.
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