The Escape of Camilla

Details

Bernardo di Stefano Roselli* (1450-1526)
The Escape of Camilla
oil on panel
15¼ x 14in. (38.8 x 35.5cm.)

Provenance

Professor Tancred Borenius, London, 1922, from whom purchased by William Harrison Woodward; (+) sale, Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, Nov. 15, 1945, lot 24 ($600 to the family of the present owners).

Literature

P. Schubring, New Cassone Panels, Apollo, III, May 1926, pp. 251-2, illustrated as the Master of Paris, circa, 1450.
W.G. Constable, Paintings by Italian Masters, 1928, pp. 12-3, no. 14, pl. XIV

Exhibited

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts (on loan).

Lot Essay

The subject is taken from Virgil's Aeneid, XI, vv. 539-827 when Metabus, King of the Volscians, driven from the city of Privernum, invokes the aid of Diana and binds his daughter, Camila, to a spear which he hurls to the opposite bank of the river Amasenus.

P. Schubring, op. cit., dated the present painting to circa 1450 and suggested it once formed one end of a cassone, the other end of which was in the collection of Dr. Frolick, Vienna. He attributed both panels to the Master of Paris, so named after the artist who painted a Judgement of Paris in the Rudolfimum, Prague.

We are grateful to Mr. Everett Fahy for the attribution.