Jacob de Wit (1695-1754)

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Jacob de Wit (1695-1754)

Diana and Callisto with Jupiter disguised as an Eagle beyond

grey wash heightened with white (partly oxidised), on light brown preparation, grey ink framing lines
121 x 125 mm.

Provenance

with P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1957

Exhibited

Arnhem, 1958, no. 135
Zeist, 1960, no. 73

Lot Essay

A preparatory study for the picture painted in 1727 for Jan Baptiste de Surmont, Lord of Vlooswijk and now in the Rijksmuseum, A. Staring, Jacob de Wit, Amsterdam, 1958, pl. 94. Three related drawings are recorded: at Berlin (Bock-Rosenberg, no. 214593), formerly with Colnaghi in 1969 and another sold in these Rooms, 12 November 1990, lot 178, illustrated
See illustration on p.

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