'Sine Baccho et Cerere friget Venus'

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Jacob Hoefnagel (Antwerp 1575-c. 1630 The Netherlands)
'Sine Baccho et Cerere friget Venus'
indistinctly signed and dated 'IA HOEF: F MDCV' (upper left)
oil on copper
27 x 35.2 cm.

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Please note additional provenance: In the possession of the family of the present owner since the 1840s.

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Lot Essay

Jacob Hoefnagel was, like his father Joris Hoefnagel (Antwerp 1542-1601 Vienna), an artist at the court of Rudolf II in Prague. He carried on his father's work with a a series of engravings of insects and flowers called Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii (Frankfurt am Main, 1592). He is also known to have produced oils in a highly mannerist style such as the present work.

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