CIRCA 1735, PROBABLY FERDINANDO MARIA CAMPANI

細節

A Siena plate
Circa 1735, probably Ferdinando Maria Campani
Painted with Bellerophon leading Pegasus by the bridle, two female attendants seated nearby, before bushes and distant buildings and mountains, within a manganese line and ochre rim (minute rim chip at 4 o'clock, very slight flaking to rim)
9¾ in. (24.8 cm.) diam.

來源

Schloß Thallwitz (reverse with red inventory number Th.16.)

出版

Steffen Berg, op. cit. (January 1996), pl. 14.

注意事項

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拍品專文

The graphic source above is Bartoli, op. cit. (Rome, 1680), pl. IX. (Reproduced courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum Picture Library, London).

Bellerophon, falsely accused of making advances to the Queen of Argos, was sent by the King of Argos to Iobates to be killed. Iobates set Bellerophon a task he assumed he could not survive, the slaying of the monster Chimaera, but he unexpectedly carried out the task with the help of Pegasus.