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Premium Nicolas VLEUGHELS (Paris, 1668 - Rome, 1737)
The Rape of Eur…
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Nicolas VLEUGHELS (Paris, 1668 - Rome, 1737)
The Rape of Eur…
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Lot no. 31
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Nicolas VLEUGHELS (Paris, 1668 - Rome, 1737)
The Rape of Europa
Oil on oak panel, one plate
Dated '1723' lower left
(Restorations)
No frame
The Abduction of Europa, oil on oak panel, dated, by N. Vleughels
10.23 x 13.77 in.
26 x 35 cm
Provenance: Possibly Sale of the "Cabinet de M****" (Desbrières or Fitz James), Paris, Hôtel d'Aligre, 18-19 May 1778, n° 33 (L'amour couché, & Vénus avec les Graces, & pour pendant l'Enlèvement d'Europe. These two pictures of a pleasant composition and a beautiful colour, are painted on wood. H. 9 inches 3l. ; width 12 in 6l ". " 360. A Despres" (H. 0,249 ; W. 0,327) ;
Private collection, Paris
Bibliography: Perhaps Bernard Hercenberg, Nicolas Vleughels. Peintre et directeur de l'Académie de France à Rome 1668-1737, Paris, 1975, p. 120-121, no. 196
Nicolas Vleughels spent two years in Venice from March 1707. The consequences of this stay were particularly important. Copies after Veronese were at the heart of his painting and engraving practice as well as his teaching, while he was director of the Académie de France in Rome. He commissioned copies of the sixteenth-century Venetian master from Charles Natoire, Etienne Jeaurat and Carle van Loo. It was undoubtedly from these Venetian masters that he found the inspiration for our painting.
Nicolas Vleughels produced at least one other painting depicting The Abduction of Europa, which we know from an engraving by Madeleine Horthemels in 1723, the same year as our panel.
Nicolas VLEUGHELS (Paris, 1668 - Rome, 1737)
26 x 35 cm
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