CIRCA 1745, PROBABLY FERDINANDO MARIA CAMPANI

Details

A Siena plate
Circa 1745, probably Ferdinando Maria Campani
Painted with Pluto greeting Proserpina with two of his attendants on a coastline with a fortified port to the right, within a manganese line and ochre rim (two areas of re-painting to centre to disguise flaking, rim with cracks encircling D-shaped area at 12 o'clock, slight flaking to rim)
9¾ in. (24.9 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Schloß Thallwitz (reverse with red inventory number Th.2[?]2.)

Literature

Steffen Berg, op. cit. (January 1996), pl. 10.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

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

In the graphic source, Pluto is gripping Proserpina's hand very firmly and she appears to be surprised. It is probable that it depicts the scene shortly before he carries her off to the underworld, something which appears to have been lost in the process of translation from the printed source to the plate.

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