Ventes live - Lot 136
[Flemish]
Meleager and Atalanta.
Antwerp, 1640-1670
€ 250 / 350
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Description du lot
Etching, 32 x 22,5 cm, laid paper with watermark (fleur-de-lis), signed in plate in the lower text margin "Ioan. Meysens fecit et excudit".
Landscape with Atalanta resting against a tree at right, a dog jumping against her. Meleager standing on the Calydonian boar's body at left and offering Atalanta the boar's head. Envy on a cloud in top left. After the painting by Rubens in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (inv.no.75).
Ref. Hollstein XXXI:4.
Joined: Collection of 8 prints, some after Rubens. Artists include Cornelis Galle, Waterloo, Bouttats, and Frederick de Wit. (9 pcs)