Peace embracing Justice with a landscape with a ruined amphitheatre beyond

Details

School of Fontainebleau
Peace embracing Justice with a landscape with a ruined amphitheatre beyond
oil on panel
33¾ x 47 5/8 in. (85.7 x 121 cm.)

Provenance

Pedro Bosch, Madrid, 1892.
Collection Neger, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Monaco, 7 December 1987, lot 73, where acquired by the present owner.

Exhibited

Madrid, European Art History, 1892-3.
Naples, Palazzo Reale, Fontainebleau and Italian Mannerism, 1952, no. 48.

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Lot Essay

Variants of this popular composition are known. It is probable that the present picture is the work of a Flemish artist working for the French Court; for a similar composition see that by Marten de Vos, in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg (see A. Zweite, Marten de Vos als Maler, Berlin, 1980, p. 283, no. 47, and pl. 56).

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