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FOLLOWER OF HERMAN VAN SWANEVELT
Arcadian landscape with Venus Offering Diana a Choice between Cupid and Adonis
oil on canvas
5612 x 9858 in. (143.5 x 250.5 cm.)
in an original cassetta frame
Provenance
Private collection, France.
with Westbury Fine Art, Bath, from whom acquired in 2015 by the present owner.
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Lot Essay

This composition takes as its inspiration the painting of circa 1630-39 by Hermanvan Swanevelt in the Royal Collection, London (RCIN 402637), which itself exhibits some similarity with Swanevelt's etching of the same subject dated 1654. It was in the late 1630s that Swanevelt's work was most heavily influenced by Claude Lorrain, hence the idyllic, softly-lit, lucidly structured and evocatively articulated Classical ruins of the prime.

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