Lot Essay
Another example with slightly variant architecture was sold in these Rooms, 14 April 1980, lot 79.
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Details
A Castelli rectangular allegorical plaque of Europa
Early 18th Century
Painted in the workshop of Aurelio Grue with a figure of a courtly lady emblematic of Europe depicted below a parasol held by an attendant and escorted by a gallant, a second attendant holding her train, menaced by two Turkish horsemen behind her, a pillared building to one side above the inscription EUROPA, within a framed border (upper left corner restuck and restored)
10in. (25.5cm.) x 12¾in. (32cm.)
Early 18th Century
Painted in the workshop of Aurelio Grue with a figure of a courtly lady emblematic of Europe depicted below a parasol held by an attendant and escorted by a gallant, a second attendant holding her train, menaced by two Turkish horsemen behind her, a pillared building to one side above the inscription EUROPA, within a framed border (upper left corner restuck and restored)
10in. (25.5cm.) x 12¾in. (32cm.)