A LARGE BERLIN RECTANGULAR PLAQUE painted by Korÿe after Adrian van der Werff with a pastoral seduction, the shepherd and shepherdess wearing loose robes and seated in an idyllic baroque garden with meandering flowers, before a marble group of playful cherubs beside a fountain in an arch, and a statue of the Dancing Faun, signed, impressed KPM and sceptre mark and letters S V, Pressnummern 538, 381, circa 1880, framed

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A LARGE BERLIN RECTANGULAR PLAQUE painted by Korÿe after Adrian van der Werff with a pastoral seduction, the shepherd and shepherdess wearing loose robes and seated in an idyllic baroque garden with meandering flowers, before a marble group of playful cherubs beside a fountain in an arch, and a statue of the Dancing Faun, signed, impressed KPM and sceptre mark and letters S V, Pressnummern 538, 381, circa 1880, framed
21¼ in. x 15½in. (39.5cm. x 54cm.)

Lot Essay

Cf. Barbara Gaehtgens, Adrian van der Werff, 1659-1722, Munich, 1987, p. 73, pl. 6 for the original painting of 1689 in the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden.

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