Christies-The Satyr-Rubens

Rubens (Siegen 1577-1640 Antwerp)
A satyr holding a basket of grapes and quinces with a nymph

Estimate

USD 5,000,000 - USD 7,000,000




Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577-1640 Antwerp)

A satyr holding a basket of grapes and quinces with a nymph

oil on panel transferred to canvas, laid down on board

41 ¼ x 29 7/8 in. (104.8 x 75.8 cm.)

Provenance


(Possibly) The artist, when recorded in theSpecificatie as 'No. 174 Une piece d’une Nymphe et Satyre avec un panier, plein de raisins, sur fond de bois'; from whose estate given between 1640 and 1645 to

Salomon Nobeliers, Brussels.

Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968), New York and Dublin, 1936, and by whom given in 1967 to his mother

Comtesse d'Aubigny d'Esmyards, Monte Carlo; Hôtel George V, Paris, 17 June 1980, lot 65, as Studio of Sir Peter Paul Rubens.

Private collection, Geneva, until circa 1985.

George Drago, Antibes.

with Galería Caylus, Madrid, by 1998, from whom acquired by the present owner