Theseus discovering his father's sword

細節

Follower of Jean Lemaire
Theseus discovering his father's sword
oil on canvas
23¾ x 19 in. 60.3 x 48.2 cm.

來源

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 16 May 1962, lot 70, as 'Laurent de La Hyre'.

展覽

Johannesburg, Art Gallery, Three Centuries of French Painting: François I - Napoleon I, March-April 1974.

注意事項

This lot is offered without reserve.

拍品專文

The subject of the present painting is taken from Plutarch (Lives, I, 3-6) and the iconography may derive from Pausanias' account of a relief on the Acropolis (Book I, Attica, XXVII, 8). When Aeginus, King of Athens, left his wife Aethra, he buried his sword and sandals under a boulder and informed her of their location. Their son Theseus was to join his father only when he was strong enough to lift the boulder and retrieve the arms.

Dr. Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco has suggested an attribution to Lemaire, suggesting that the figures may be by Jacques Stella (private communication, 1997).