Lot n° 33
Estimation :
5000 - 7000
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 7 150EUR
Attributed to Domincus Van WYNEN called ASCANIUS... - Lot 33 - Daguerre
Attributed to Domincus Van WYNEN called ASCANIUS (1661 - after 1690)
The witches' sabbath
Canvas.
150 x 100 cm
Without frame.
Provenance : sale in Paris, Hôtel Drouot, study Marie-Françoise Robert and Franck Baille, 24 June 2011, n°31.
Domenicus Van Wynen studied in The Hague in 1674 with the history painter Willem Doudyns. Between 1680 and 1690, he
was in Rome where he belonged to the Schilderbent, an association of Dutch painters, and took the nickname of Ascanius
(son of Aeneas). Some of his paintings were engraved by Pool. One finds in the essential of his compositions the
taste of the strange, of the esotericism. The body of work has been grouped around the only signed painting preserved in the National Gallery in Dublin
National Gallery in Dublin (canvas 72 x 72 cm) with a similar subject. Of a format close to our painting, we can mention
Scène de sorcellerie (Canvas, 136 x 101 cm; Sotheby's Paris, 20 October 2005, n°14),
the Scène de sorcellerie (sale Sotheby's London, July 20, 2003, n° 130) or the painting with the same subject (sale
Sotheby's New York, 17 January 1992, n°43).
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