Live Auction 2511Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolors Part II
Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 London)
Lot 274

Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 London)

Ceres carrying a flaming torch in a chariot drawn by serpents, on her way to Pluto's kingdom

Closed26 January 2011

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Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 London)
Ceres carrying a flaming torch in a chariot drawn by serpents, on her way to Pluto's kingdom
point of the brush, brown wash
6 3/8 x 9½ in. (16.4 x 24.1 cm.)

C. Fairfax Murray (according to a pencil inscription, verso). Ludwig Burchard, and by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

A copy after a relief on the Proserpine Sarcophagus which was brought in 1607 to the Casino of Palazzo Rospigliosi in Rome. Vey (op. cit.) dates Van Dyck's drawing to 1622-3. The same sarcophagus had been drawn by Rubens some fifteen years earlier, and a copy of his drawing is in the Rubenshuis, Antwerp (Tekeningen van P.P. Rubens, Antwerp, 1956, no. 16), while the relief was also drawn by Poussin (P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665: Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan, 1994, no. 240).