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Circle of Sebastian Vrancx(Antwerp 1573-1647)A palace garden with elegant figures feasting on a terrace with musicians on the balcony above them and a troupe of commedia dell'arte actors and acrobats performing below
5 December 2018, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£18,000 - £25,000
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Circle of Sebastian Vrancx (Antwerp 1573-1647)
A palace garden with elegant figures feasting on a terrace with musicians on the balcony above them and a troupe of commedia dell'arte actors and acrobats performing below
oil on canvas
95 x 150cm (37 3/8 x 59 1/16in).
oil on canvas
95 x 150cm (37 3/8 x 59 1/16in).
Footnotes
This type of scene, in which various structural architectural elements are artfully forged into a fictitious whole, was developed in the late sixteenth century by Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527-before 1609) and his son, Paul (1567-before 1636?), Besides paintings they also produced two books of prints, which served as examples for a number of other artists, among them Hendrick van Steenwyck the Younger and Louis de Caullery. The staffage of pictures with palace architecture generally consists of distinguished burghers who are seen abandoning themselves to pleasure in which music and dance often play an important role. In the present composition the artist places less emphasis on the architecture and more on the elegant company disporting themselves in the extensive formal gardens of a Renaissance palace.
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