Live auction - Lot 253
Orpheus playing his lyre.
Hammer price: €
900
€ 80 / 120
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Lot description
Black chalk, 55,5 x 60,5 cm, thick wove paper 60 x 65 cm, pencil signed at lower right (min. dampstains at margins, wavy paper).
Large mythical scene of a bearded man playing a lyre, seated along a cascading river. Left and right, one can see gods and heroes floating on clouds listening in awe. At the top middle stands a ruined castle on a rock.