Erasmus Quellinus the Younger Antwerp 1607 - 1678

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8,000 - 12,000 USD

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Description

Erasmus Quellinus the Younger
an allegory of the arts, with iris and geometry attending the three-headed figure of painting and sculpture, a putto crowning her with laurels
inscribed in point of the brush in gray wash on hem of woman's dress, lower left: NON ALIUNDE
inscribed in brown ink, on column, lower center (erased) and numbered (dated?) in brown ink, verso: 1656
point of the brush and black ink and gray wash, with brown ink, heightened with white

Catalogue Note

Though many works by Quellinus are more overtly Rubensian than this, the more rounded forms, the handling of draperies, and the specific facial types seen here do occur in some of his works from around 1650 onwards, particularly those made in connection with printmaking. One example is the thesis titlepage Leges Militiae Angelicae, another is his oil sketch of Cybele (Sibiu, Museum Brukenthal; see J.-P. de Bruyn, Erasmus II Quellinus (1607-1678), Freren 1988, pp. 181-2, 255, cats. 114, 218).