Lot 144: The marriage of Alexander the Great to Roxana, the protagonists before an Altar of Love, surrounded by ladies and gentlemen in armour bearing gifts, Cupid in a cloud above holding two laurel wreaths, in a woodland landscape

LOUIS NICOLAS VAN BLARENBERGHE (FRENCH, 1716-1794)
The marriage of Alexander the Great to Roxana, the protagonists before an Altar of Love, surrounded by ladies and gentlemen in armour bearing gifts, Cupid in a cloud above holding two laurel wreaths, in a woodland landscape
signed and dated 'Van Blarenberghe . 1744'
on vellum
rectangular, 2 x 2¾ in. (51 x 70 mm.), gilt-wood and gesso frame with royal French surmount decorated with fleur de lys and trailing foliage

With Fry and Son, Münster, 5 July 1982.

Alexander married two women: Roxana, daughter of a minor noble and Stateira, a Persian princess and daughter of Darius III of Persia. His son by Roxana, Alexander IV of Macedon, was killed after the death of his father, before he reached adulthood.