Live Auction 16386Old Masters
M. Mol (active Flanders, 17th Century)
Lot 103

M. Mol (active Flanders, 17th Century)

Homer dictating to a scribe

Closed30 October 2018

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M. Mol (active Flanders, 17th Century)
Homer dictating to a scribe
signed '.M. Mol fecit.' (lower center, on the table)
oil on panel
32 x 42 in. (81.3 x 106.7 cm.)

H.P. Harris.
Private collection, Belgium, until recently.

Specialist note

A similar treatment of this subject is found in a painting by Pier Francesco Mola in the Palazzo Corsini, Rome (see R. Cocke, Pier Francesco Mola, Oxford, 1972, pp. 55-56, fig. 138).