The Virgin and Child with Angels making music

Details

Dirck de Quade van Ravesteyn (c. 1565- after 1619 Prague)
The Virgin and Child with Angels making music
oil on canvas
155.5 x 112 cm.

Provenance

Fideikommis Wesendonk collection.
with Philippe de Beisac, Wiesbaden, 1962.

Literature

E. Fucíková, 'Studien zur Rudolfinischen Kunst: Addenda et Corrigenda', Umeni, 1979, xxvii, pp. 489-514.
T. DaCosta Kaufmann, L'Ecole de Prague, Paris, 1985, p. 264, no. 16-10, illustrated.
T. DaCosta Kaufmann, The School of Prague. Painting at the Court of Rudolf II, Chicago and London, 1988, p. 223, no. 16-10, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

We are grateful to Dr. Eliska Fucíková for confirming the attribution on the basis of a colour transparency (written communication, 9 March 2006). She considers the present lot to date from the artist's late period at the court of Rudolf II and believes it to be one of his most accomplished works.

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