Godfried Maes (1649-1700)
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Godfried Maes (1649-1700)

The death of Niobe's children

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Godfried Maes (1649-1700)
The death of Niobe's children
numbered '80' (verso)
black lead, pen and black ink, grey wash, grey and brown ink framing lines, fragmentary watermark Strasburg lily with letters WR, framed
173 x 237 mm.
Provenance
The widow of the artist (see J.B. Descamps. La vie des peintres.... Paris 1753-63, IV, p. 19 'Il avoit composé les Fables d'Ovide, que sa Veuve à vendu 800 Florins après sa mort')
Jacob de Wit, (acquired in Antwerp before 1717); Amsterdam, de Leth, 10 March 1755, part of portfolio U, no. 87 ('De Herschepping van Ovidius, in drieentachtig uitvoerige Teekeningen, door G. Maes. Welke in één keep verkocht zullen worden')
B. Cronenburgh; Amsterdam, 22 March 1762, part of portfolio A, no. 1 ('Drie-en tachentig Teekeningen uit de Ovidius...')
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