Wednesday 6 April 2016

Late 18th century "perhaps a self-portrait" is copy after Rubens' Faun and Nymph

Bolland & Marotz, from Germany, sells on 30 April 2016 a "Probably late 18th century painter" Faun with Girl, estimated at 1,500 Euro, which "can be a self-portrait of the painter".

Probably (hopefully!) not, it is a good copy of Rubens' "Faun and Nymph" (the above Workshop version from the very nice Museum Mayer Van den Bergh in Antwerp, the probable original is in Vienna).

It probably is worth the estimate regardless of the description, as it is a well-painted, attractive work. Not good enough to be a Workshop version, sadly.

UPDATE: sold for 1,250 Euro.

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