Auction on
29 December 2022 - 14:00 (CET) -
Conde de Aranda, 23 y Velazquez - 28001 Madrid
This majestic trapped lion illustrating French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine’s retelling of Aesop’s fable is attributed to Flemish artist Frans Snyders (1579-1657). In the 19th century, it belonged to the wealthy Spanish financier and collector Marquis of Remisa.
Attributed to Frans Snyders (1579-1657) and workshop, Fábula del león y el ratón (The Fable of the Lion and the Rat), oil on canvas, 130 x 180 cm/51.18 x 70.86 in. Estimate: €350,000
Attributed to Frans Snyders (1579-1657) and workshop, Fábula del león y el ratón (The Fable of the Lion and the Rat), oil on canvas, 130 x 180 cm/51.18 x 70.86 in. Estimate: €350,000
“Patience and length of time may sever/What strength and empty wrath could never”: that is the moral of Jean de La Fontaine’s fable about a lion that gets caught in hunters’ nets and is rescued by a rat gnawing through the ropes with its teeth.…
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