CORNELIS SCHUT | ABDUCTION OF EUROPA

Dr. Fidelio de Freitas Branco, Lisbon;

By inheritance to his son, Luiz de Freitas Branco, Director of Teatro de São Carlos, Lisbon;

Thence by descent in the family;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 3 July 1991, lot 84; 

With Alex Wengraf, Ltd., London;

From whom acquired, 1992.

G. Wilmers, Cornelius Schut: A Flemish Painter of the High Baroque, Antwerp 1996, pp. 73-74, no. A11, reproduced p. 350 and in color on front cover;

H. Vlieghe, Flemish Art and Architecture, 1585 - 1750, New Haven 1998, p. 89, reproduced in color, fig. 115.

ENGRAVED:

Rombout Eynhouts, signed: C. Schut inv. R. Eynhouts fecit. in Hollstein vol. VI, no. 20 (in reverse).