Lot Essay
Similar in subject, handling, and technique to a sheet by Miel in the British Museum depicting a gypsy camp, W. Bernt, Die Niederländischen Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1958, no. 398, illustrated.
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An extensive landscape with a sheperdess gesturing to a satyr and two nymphs
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Attributed to Jan Miel (1599-1663)
An extensive landscape with a sheperdess gesturing to a satyr and two nymphs
with inscription 'Zuccarelli'
red and white chalk on blue grey paper
306 x 407 mm.
An extensive landscape with a sheperdess gesturing to a satyr and two nymphs
with inscription 'Zuccarelli'
red and white chalk on blue grey paper
306 x 407 mm.
Sale room notice
This composition is taken from Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem's painting of The infant Jupiter with the Nymphs on Mount Ida now in the Wallace Collection, London, J. Ingamells, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Pictures, London, 1992, IV, no. P256, pp. 33-4, illustrated.