A woman playing the luit with other instruments at her feet: an Alegory of Hearing; and A woman with a parot on her left hand: an Alegory of Touch

细节

Circle of Jacob de Backer (Antwerp c. 1540/45- c. 1595)
A woman playing the luit with other instruments at her feet: an Alegory of Hearing; and A woman with a parot on her left hand: an Alegory of Touch
oil on panel
45.7 x 64.2 cm.
a panel maker's mark of the city of Antwerp on the reverse of the second panel
a set of two (2)

来源

Anonymous sale, Christie's, Amsterdam, 20 June 1989, lot 248.

注意事项

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拍品专文

Both compositions are based on sheets from a print series depicting the Five Senses by an anonymous engraver after designs by Jacob de Backer (see F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etschings, engravings and woodcuts, Amsterdam, 1949, I, p. 52, nos. 2 and 5, both illustrated).