Lot 160: ANDRIES VAN EERTVELT ANTWERP BAPT 1590 - 1652

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

A NAVAL ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN SPANISH MEN-O'-WAR AND TURKISH GALLEYS IN HEAVY SEAS

measurements note
96.6 by 132.4 cm.; 38 by 52 1/8 in.

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Hilde Frascotti, Vienna, 1969.

NOTE

Formerly identified as the battle of Lepanto (1571). A similar composition is in Schwerin, Landesmuseum, inv. no. 336 (see W. Bernt, Netherlandish Painters of the Seventeenth Century, Munich 1979, vol. I, reproduced fig. 383).