École française de la seconde moitié du XVIIe... Lot n° 337
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The Virgin and Child asking for the breast.
Oil on panel. Small horizontal lift in the middle right.
H. 21 x W. 15 cm.
In a gilded wood frame.
History
This delicate Madonna was almost certainly based on an engraving by Jean Boulanger (Amiens, 1608-1660), published in 1661, and modelled on a drawing by François Tortebat (Paris, 1616-1690), which was based on the painted work by Simon Vouet. The painted work was considered lost until its reappearance at auction in Stockholm in 2008 (Bukowski's, 05/28/2008, 89 x 73.5 cm, sold for 3,650,000 crowns, approx. 390,000€). It is in the same direction as the engraving and therefore as our painting. Our version differs in the addition of the green cloth forming a dai at the top.
The engraving was accompanied by this poem: "jure ocule dextraque manu pressa ubera signat / queis lactens veré lac deus est homini" ("Seeing this right hand pressing against the breast / and asking for milk, we can see that God had become man").
Lot presented by Mr. Pierre-Antoine MARTENET, expert in Ancient Drawings and Paintings.
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