Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 206. Hero and Leander.

Workshop of Nicolas Régnier

Hero and Leander

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot Closed

December 9, 03:41 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Workshop of Nicolas Régnier

Maubeuge, Flanders circa 1590 - 1667 Venice

Hero and Leander


oil on canvas

unframed: 152.9 x 208 cm.; 60¼ x 81⅞ in.

framed: 172.9 x 229.4 cm.; 68⅛ x 90⅜ in.

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 14 July 1983, lot 376 (as After Nicolas Regnier);
Where acquired by the present owner.

A workshop version of the prime painting by Nicolas Régnier now in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.1 This scene depicts the tragic fate of the two lovers Hero and Leander. In her despair at finding the corpse of Leander on the shore of the Hellespont, Hero flung a woven mantle around herself and plunged to her death in the sea below.


1 https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/4289/