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Lot 13: Vincent Sellaer, Leda and the Swan

Est: €70,000 EUR - €90,000 EURSold:
BibliopathosVerona, ItalyJuly 09, 2014

Item Overview

Description

VINCENT SELLAER (attributed)
(active in Mechelen in 1538)

Leda and the Swan

Oil on panel, 30,2 x 42,6 inches (76,8 x 108,2 cm), ancient carved and gilt frame

In this wonderful panel, Leda is represented in a moment of domestic rest, while speaking lied down on soft pillows with the swan caressing her hair and almost using its wing as a cushion for her. Castor and Pollux, born from Leda's union with Jupiter in form of a swan, are resting on their mother's lying body: from the same intercourse, getting out of an egg like the Dioscuri, also Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra were born.

In respect of its childlike figures, it is also comparable to Sellaer's Jupiter, Satyr, Antiope and their Children in the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Bruxelles.

The iconography comes from Leonardo's famous lost composition which influenced and inspired many Dutch artists of the time, including Joos and Cornelis van Cleve, both of them painting numerous versions of the same subject.The influence of Leonardo's is clearly recognizable in the faces and the hair of the children.

Vincent Sellaer (now convincingly identified as Vincent Geldersman) was, with Michiel Coxcie, the leading artist in Malines (now Mechelen), a city that had become the cultural centre of the Netherlands during the reign of Margaret of Austria. He painted several different versions of Leda and the Swan, as well as a Susannah and the Elders, a Cleopatra and a Descent from the Cross for the cathedral of his own city. Sellaer would have absorbed this stylistic innovation during his sojourn in Italian (1522-24), during which he probably worked with Moretto of Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino). Sellaer's style is characterized by an ability to combine seamlessly Northern European and Italian sources and create paintings notable for their power and monumental quality.

Artist or Maker

Provenance

Private collection. Literature : M. Díaz Padrón, Nuevas Pinturas de Vicente Sellaer identificadas en el Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla y colecciones madrileñas , in «Archivo español de Arte», 54, Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1981, pp. 364-369; G.J. Hoogewerff, Vincent Sellaer. Een bijdrage tot de kennis van zijn kunst , in «Miscellany for Prof. D. Roggen», Antwerp, De Sikkel editions, 1957, pp. 137-148; H-P. Mielke, Zu Vincent Sellaer, in «Festschrift to Erik Fischer. European Drawings from Six Centuries», Copenhague, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, 1990, pp. 257-262; M. Pilkington, A general dictionaty of painters, containing memoires of the lives and works of the most emiment Professors of the Art of Painting, from its revival, by Cimabue, in the year 1250, to the present time , vol. I, London, T. McLean, 1824, p. 368. Note: This painting on panel can be compared with another by Sellaer with the same subject, sold at Sotheby's NewYork, 22 January, 2004, lot 58, fetching $116,500). Special Notice No buyer's premium will be charged on the hammer price. THIS LOT ALREADY HAS THE EXPORT LICENSE RELEASED BY THE ITALIAN MINISTRY OF CULTURAL HERITAGE .

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Auction Details

Old Master Paintings, Drawings and Engravings

by
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July 09, 2014, 07:00 AM PST

via Enrico Toti, 1, Verona, 37129, IT

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