LOT 20 An episode from Le Bât or The Pack Saddle Circle of Nicolas Vleughels(Paris 1668-1737 Rome)
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23.2 x 17.6cm (9 1/8 x 6 15/16in).
Circle of Nicolas Vleughels (Paris 1668-1737 Rome)
An episode from Le Bât or The Pack Saddle oil on panel23.2 x 17.6cm (9 1/8 x 6 15/16in).
|The present painting depicts an episode from Le Bât or The Pack Saddle by Jean de la Fontaine. In the tale, a suspicious husband paints an ass on his wife's pudendum. Her lover then visits and, in making love to her, rubs away the painting. Beforehand however, the lover had made a copy of the donkey on a canvas (see behind the wife in the present painting) and he repaints it back in place but he also adds a pack saddle, which is discovered by the husband as evidence of her infidelity.The current lot shows the central figure group from Vleughels's larger work, known from the engraving by Nicolas de Larmessin (see: B. Hercenberg, Nicolas Vleughels. Peintre e Directeur de l'Academie de France à Rome 1668 - 1737, Paris, 1975, cat. no. 133, ill., fig. 145).
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2018年5月10-13日
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