Property from the Alfred Beit Foundation (Lots 9, 38 & 39)
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen, Westphalia 1577-1640 Antwerp)

Venus supplicating Jupiter

成交价 英镑 1,314,500
估价
英镑 1,200,000 – 英镑 1,800,000
估价不包括买家酬金。成交总额为下锤价加以买家酬金及扣除可适用之费用。
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Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen, Westphalia 1577-1640 Antwerp)

Venus supplicating Jupiter

成交价 英镑 1,314,500
拍品终止拍卖: 2016年7月7日
成交价 英镑 1,314,500
拍品终止拍卖: 2016年7月7日
细节
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen, Westphalia 1577-1640 Antwerp)
Venus supplicating Jupiter
oil on oak panel, unframed
20 x 14 ¾ in. (50.8 x 37.5 cm.)
来源
Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (1723-1792); his sale (†), Christie’s, London, 11-14 March 1795 [=2nd day], lot 106, as ‘Thetis supplicating Jupiter’ (25 gns. to the following),
James Townley Esq; his sale (†), Foster, Ramsgate, 22-23 August 1830 [=2nd day], lot 139 (52 gns. to Farrer).
John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley (1767-1831), Cobham Hall, by 1830, and by descent in the collection of the Earls of Darnley to the
following,
Ivo Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley (1859-1927), from whom acquired by the following,
Otto Gutekunst (1865-1947), and by inheritance to his wife Lena, from whom acquired in 1947 by the following,
with Colnaghi, London.
Sir Alfred Lane Beit, 2nd Bt. (1903-1994), Russborough, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.
出版
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, etc., London, 1830, II, p. 199, no. 721, as ‘Thetis supplicating Jupiter on behalf of her son Achilles’, and p. 259, no. 878, as ‘Jupiter committing to Woman the Government of the Universe... A free spirited sketch.’
G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London, 1854, III, p. 24, no. 5, as ‘Jupiter giving up the world to the domination of Love’, ‘A very spirited sketch’.
F.G. Stephens, ‘On the pictures at Cobham Hall’, Archeologia Cantaiana, 11, 1877, p. 165.
F. Göler von Ravensburg, Rubens und die Antike, Jena, 1882, pp. 165 and 219, no. 34, as ‘Jupiter giving up the world to the domination of Love.’
M. Rooses, L’Oeuvre de Pierre-Paul Rubens, Antwerp, 1890, III, p. 167, as ‘Thetis supplicating Jupiter.’
E. Dillon, Rubens, London, 1909, p. 232, as ‘Jupiter, Venus, and Cupid.’
‘Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Collection of Pictures – II’, The Burlington Magazine, LXXXVII, 1945, p. 217, no. 106, as ‘Thetis supplicating Jupiter.’
D. Bax, Hollandse en Vlaamse Schilderkunst in Zuid-Afrika, Amsterdam, 1952, pp. 117 and 118, fig. 68, as ‘Venus supplicating Jupiter.’
M. Jaffé, ‘Review of Paintings from Irish Collections’, The Burlington Magazine, XCIX, 1957, p. 276, fig. 38, as ‘Venus supplicating Jupiter.’
F. Watson, ‘The Collections of Sir Alfred Beit: 1’, The Connoisseur, CXLV, April 1960, p. 158, as ‘Venus supplicating Jupiter.’
E. Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837, London, 1962, I, pp. 38 and 208, under Queen’s House, Greenwich, as ‘Venus supplicating Jupiter’.
J. Held, The oil sketches of Peter Paul Rubens. A critical catalogue, Princeton, 1980, I, pp. 335-6, no. 247, as ‘Jupiter reassuring Venus’; II, pl. 265.
J. Garff and E. de la Fuente Pedersen, Rubens Cantoor: The Drawings of Willem Panneels. A critical catalogue, Copenhagen, 1988, I, no. 125; and II, pl. 127.
M. Jaffé, Rubens, Milan, 1989, p. 263, no. 658, illustrated, as ‘Jupiter reassuring Venus.’
展览
Cape Town, National Gallery of South Africa, Old Master Paintings from the Beit Collection, 1949-1950, no. 23.
Dublin, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Paintings from Irish Collections, May-August 1957, no. 53.
拍场告示
Please note that lot 9 in the printed catalogue is now lot 14A in the sale.

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