Paulus Moreelse
(Utrecht 1571–1638)
A mother and child as Venus and Cupid,
signed and dated lower right: Moreelse fecit/1624,
oil on panel, 73 x 58 cm, framed
Provenance:
sale, Mak B. V., Dordrecht, 18 December 1979, lot 156;
Private collection, Belgium
Paulus Moreelse started his artistic career as a pupil of Michiel van Mierevelt and was a highly talented portrait painter. His portraits of children are among his best works, but he was also an erudite history painter and the inventor of arcadian shepherd and shepherdess compositions. A comparable painting, dated 1630, is in the collection of the Hermitage, St. Petersburg (see I. Linnik, Y. Kuznetsov, Dutch Painting in Soviet Museums, Amsterdam [et. al.] 1982 no. 29, ill.).
Specialist: Damian Brenninkmeyer
Damian Brenninkmeyer
+43 1 515 60 403
old.masters@dorotheum.com
09.06.2020 - 16:00
- Realized price: **
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EUR 20,620.-
- Estimate:
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EUR 20,000.- to EUR 30,000.-
Paulus Moreelse
(Utrecht 1571–1638)
A mother and child as Venus and Cupid,
signed and dated lower right: Moreelse fecit/1624,
oil on panel, 73 x 58 cm, framed
Provenance:
sale, Mak B. V., Dordrecht, 18 December 1979, lot 156;
Private collection, Belgium
Paulus Moreelse started his artistic career as a pupil of Michiel van Mierevelt and was a highly talented portrait painter. His portraits of children are among his best works, but he was also an erudite history painter and the inventor of arcadian shepherd and shepherdess compositions. A comparable painting, dated 1630, is in the collection of the Hermitage, St. Petersburg (see I. Linnik, Y. Kuznetsov, Dutch Painting in Soviet Museums, Amsterdam [et. al.] 1982 no. 29, ill.).
Specialist: Damian Brenninkmeyer
Damian Brenninkmeyer
+43 1 515 60 403
old.masters@dorotheum.com
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| Auction: | Old Master Paintings |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 09.06.2020 - 16:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 02.06. - 09.06.2020 |
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