Jupiter and Antiope

Details

Carlo Maratti (Camerano 1625-1713 Rome)
Jupiter and Antiope
indistinctly inscribed (lower right)
oil on copper
13 5/8 x 17 in. (34.7 x 43.2 cm.)

Provenance

Brandes collection.
Hausmann collection, Hanover, no. 225.
Acquired in 1857, with the rest of the collection, by King George V of Hanover; Fideikomiss-Galerie of the House of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, 1905, no. 225.
sale, Berlin, Paul Cassirer and Hugo Helbing, 27-8 April 1926, lot 96, when presumably unsold or bought back.
The Royal House of Hanover; Sotheby's, Schloss Marienburg, Hanover, 5-15 October 2005, lot 501, as Manner of Maratti.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The attribution has been confirmed by Dr. Stella Rudolph, who will include the painting in her forthcoming catalogue raisonné on Carlo Maratti. Dr. Rudolph links this picture with a number of other mythological works that Maratti executed towards the end of his life.

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