Jan Boeckhorst (1604-1668)

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Jan Boeckhorst (1604-1668)

A Personification of Rhetoric

oil on canvas
unframed
55½ x 63in. (141 x 159.8cm.)
Provenance
Dr. F. Lieben, Vienna.
Exhibited
Vienna, Wiener Secession, Drei Jahrhunderte Flämische Kunst, 11 Jan. - 2 March 1930, no. 166.

Lot Essay

The present picture was probably one in a series of seven canvases illustrating personifications of the liberal arts. Another canvas of the same format illustrating Geometria is in the Bonn Museum (W. Cohen, Die Sammlung Wesendonck, Zeitschrift für bild. Kunst, XXI, p. 57).

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