Queen Deianira

Details

CIRCLE OF GUIDO RENI (BOLOGNA 1575-1642)
Queen Deianira
oil on canvas
22 ¼ x 18 1⁄8 in. (56.6 x 46 cm.)
in a carved limewood French Regency style-frame of circa 1720

Provenance

(Possibly) Benjamin Booth (1732-1807), and by descent to his daughter,
(Possibly) Lady Richard Ford, née Marianne Booth (1767-1849), and by descent to her son,
(Possibly) Richard Ford (1796-1858), and by descent to his son,
(Possibly) Sir Francis Clare Ford (1828-1899), and by descent to his son,
Captain Richard Ford (1860-1940), recorded in the Small Drawing Room in his inventory of 53 Ennismore Gardens, London, and by descent to his son,
John Ford, Long Court, Randwick, Gloucestershire; Mallams, Cheltenham, 21 January 2021, lot 110, where acquired by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

After Guido Reni's Abduction of Deianira of 1617-21 (Musée du Louvre, inv. no. 537), commissioned by Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1587-1626), one of four monumental canvases depicting the Labours of Hercules, painted for the Villa La Favorita. The centaur Nessus escapes through the Euenos River with the abducted Deianira, before Heracles, her husband, shoots Nessus with a poisoned arrow.

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