Lot 87
  • 87

After Francesco Albani

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Francesco Albani
  • The Landscape Cycle of the Four Elements
  • all oil on canvas, tondos
Jupiter and Venus in her chariot with cupids forging arrows; The Triumph of Venus in her chariot; Classical lovers with putti; Juno in her chariot with putti Four, oil on canvas Each circular 100cm diameter TO ADD IMAGE RIMG0094

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Paris, Deburaux et Associés, 20 January 2006, lot 182 (as School of Francesco Albani);
Anonymous sale, Paris, Deburaux et Associés, 24 May 2006, lot 5 (as School of Francesco Albani).

Catalogue Note

This set of allegorical tondos are copies after Francesco Albani's larger, original series (180 cm. in diameter) commissioned by Cardinal Maurizio of Savoy in 1625, today in the Galleria Sabauda, Turin.1

1. Inv. nos 489, 495, 500 and 509; see C. Puglisi, Francesco Albani, New Haven and London 1999, pp. 144-46, cat. no. 60, reproduced.