Aeneas, guided by the Cumaean Sibyl, descending into the Underworld
Details
Jan Brueghel II (1601-1678)
Aeneas, guided by the Cumaean Sibyl, descending into the Underworld
oil on copper
10¾ x 14¼in. (27.3 x 36.2cm.)
The reverse is stamped with the coat-of-arms of the city of Antwerp and the maker's mark of Pieter Staes
Literature
K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Jüngere, Freren, 1984, p. 304, no. 131.
Lot Essay
The present picture is an autograph version of the picture in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Both versions are probably datable to the 1630s.