A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN PAINTED SILK AND METAL THREAD...
After paintings by Pietro da Cortona, depicting the 'Rape of the Sabines' and 'Europa and the Bull', each signed 'Dominicus Libetta fecit' at rocks in the foreground
Each 141⁄4 in. (36.5 cm.) high, 19 in. (48.5 cm.) wide, overall
Provenance
Acquired by Aso O. Tavitian from Galerie Kugel, Paris, at TEFAF Maastricht, 20 March 2012.
His sale; Sotheby's, New York, 9 February 2025, lot 1569 ($9,600).
Lot Essay
The 'Rape of the Sabines' picture derives from Pietro da Cortona's monumental (280 cm. x 426 cm.) painting of the subject in the Capitoline Museums, Rome (inv. no. PC 137). Another version was in the Marlborough Collection at Blenheim Palace until it was presented by the 9th Duke to Oxford Town Hall in 1901; this version is now attributed to the Circle of Pietro.
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After paintings by Pietro da Cortona, depicting the 'Rape of the Sabines' and 'Europa and the Bull', each signed 'Dominicus Libetta fecit' at rocks in the foreground
Each 141⁄4 in. (36.5 cm.) high, 19 in. (48.5 cm.) wide, overall
Provenance
Acquired by Aso O. Tavitian from Galerie Kugel, Paris, at TEFAF Maastricht, 20 March 2012.
His sale; Sotheby's, New York, 9 February 2025, lot 1569 ($9,600).
Lot Essay
The 'Rape of the Sabines' picture derives from Pietro da Cortona's monumental (280 cm. x 426 cm.) painting of the subject in the Capitoline Museums, Rome (inv. no. PC 137). Another version was in the Marlborough Collection at Blenheim Palace until it was presented by the 9th Duke to Oxford Town Hall in 1901; this version is now attributed to the Circle of Pietro.
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