Jacob de Wit (1696-1754)

An Allegory of the Blessings of Peace: Pax welcoming Mercury and Fame with Aurora, seated beside personifications of Fortitude and Abundance; Mars with attendant evils of war fleeing, putti with garlands of flowers nearby - a modello for a ceiling painting

細節

Jacob de Wit (1696-1754)
An Allegory of the Blessings of Peace: Pax welcoming Mercury and Fame with Aurora, seated beside personifications of Fortitude and Abundance; Mars with attendant evils of war fleeing, putti with garlands of flowers nearby - a modello for a ceiling painting
signed and dated lower left JD:Wit/1753F
oil on canvas
42.7 x 59.8 cm

來源

with Dr.O. Hirschmann, Amsterdam, 1935, from whom purchased by A. Staring for ° 800

出版

A. Staring, Jacob de Wit, 1958, p.90, fig.76 (the subject erroneously identified as Mercury welcoming Callisto in Heaven)

拍品專文

The composition recalls that of the ceiling of Apollo and the Four Seasons, painted for Mr. Pieter van de Poll, Herengracht 440, Amsterdam in 1750 and still in situ (A. Staring, op.cit., p.81. no.9, fig.69) for which there is a preliminary study in the Fondation Custodia, Paris.

See colour illustration