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Circle of Bartholomäus Spranger (Antwerp 1546-1611 Prague)
Lot 196 PROPERTY FROM A GERMAN PRINCELY COLLECTION (LOTS 193-197)

Circle of Bartholomäus Spranger (Antwerp 1546-1611 Prague)

Sine Baccho et Cerere friget Venus

Closed5 December 2012

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GBP 16,250

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Circle of Bartholomäus Spranger (Antwerp 1546-1611 Prague)
Sine Baccho et Cerere friget Venus
oil on slate
21½ x 21½ in. (54.5 x 54.5 cm)

Acquired by the grandfather of the present owner.
Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, 1945, inv. no. 49, whence restituted to the father of the present owner in 1993.

Specialist note

The subject of this painting is a quote from Terence's comedy Eunuchius and can be translated as 'without wine and water, venus grows cold' (Act IV, line 5). The composition of this charming little slate relates closely to an etching by Jan Harmensz. Muller after the large painting of the subject by Spranger, formerly in the collection of Rudolf II (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum).