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NICOLAES MAES (attributed to) Ganymede abducted by Jupiter transformed into an eagle Oil on canvas, 57x48.5 cm The beautiful Ganymede was, according to mythology, abducted to heaven by Jupiter in the form of an eagle, to become cupbearer of the table of the gods. The myth was often treated in the figurative arts. The painting can be usefully compared with Maes' works of similar subject matter such as those in the Fogg Museum (USA) and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.

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NICOLAES MAES (attributed to) Ganymede abducted by Jupiter transformed into an eagle Oil on canvas, 57x48.5 cm The beautiful Ganymede was, according to mythology, abducted to heaven by Jupiter in the form of an eagle, to become cupbearer of the table of the gods. The myth was often treated in the figurative arts. The painting can be usefully compared with Maes' works of similar subject matter such as those in the Fogg Museum (USA) and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.

Estimate 500 EUR

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Set of objects that belonged to Petty Officer Gunner LE PAPE including: - SABRE d'OFFICIER de MARINE, model 1837, IIIe République period (late 19th century). Single-branch hilt in gilt brass and openwork shell with anchor and oak leaves, cap decorated with a falling scallop shell, the curved quillon in the shape of a sea monster's head. Fluted horn handle with ring holding a black braided strap. Slightly curved, flat-backed blade engraved COULAUX & Cie KLINGENTHAL, stamped with a crowned C and B, with double gutters. Black leather scabbard with brass fittings, chappe with anchor and two suspension rings, scallop shell decoration on the bolt. Blade length: 70.1 cm (watermark on hilt missing, anchor on chappe, scabbard partially cut on back). Saber once belonging to Quartermaster Le Pape. - "Concours d'Honneur du Canon", Vaisseau Ecole la "Couronne", gun prize awarded to Quartier Maître Cannonier LE PAPE, September 14, 1897. - Two MANUALS DU CANNONIER, Vaisseau école La Couronne, Sainte Barbe 1897 and 1907, bound in the name of Maître Cannonier LE PAPE. - Photograph of Jean-Marie Le Pape, 1st Master Cannoneer. Cannoneer Quartermaster Jean-Marie Le Pape served in the navy for 23 years, including 16 years and 9 months at sea. He took part in the Tonkin expeditions of 1890, 1893, 1894 and 1895. The ship La Couronne was the first iron-hulled battleship, built at the Lorient arsenal and launched in 1861, and armed the following year. This three-masted barque was part of Emperor Napoleon III's expedition to Algeria in 1865. Converted to a cannon training ship in 1881, the frigate was decommissioned in 1908 after a cannon explosion killed nine sailors.

Lot 4300

Estim. 20 - 30 EUR

Hendrik Mommers, attr., Bucolic Scene Evening summer village view with peasant woman milking the cows and peasant with jug in the barge, slightly impasto genre painting, oil on oak panel joined in three parts, unsigned, various, partly fragmentary labels on the reverse, here once uninspected attribution "No 91 Mommers ...", old retouches, in need of restoration, unframed, dimensions approx. 58.5 x 83 cm. Artist information if Mommers: also Hendrik Momers, Dutch landscape and genre painter and draughtsman (1620 Haarlem to 1693 Amsterdam), imitator of Nicolaes Berchem (1620-1683), his works were often confused with paintings by Albert Cuyp (1620-1691) and attributed and re-signed accordingly, travelled to Italy and stayed in Rome probably before 1647, member of the Dutch painters' association "Schildersbent [Engl.: band of painters]", was given a nickname as usual, "Slempop [Eng.: drunkard]", according to other sources "Meleager", 1647 admitted to the Haarlem painters' guild, 1654 dean of the Haarlem painters' guild, trained several famous painters such as Richard Brakenburgh, Dirk Maas, Jan Visser and Bernard van Schendel, 1665 last mention in Haarlem, active in Amsterdam from 1665, source: Thieme-Becker, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Müller-Singer, Seubert, Müller-Klunzinger, Nagler, Houbraken, Füssli and Wurzbach "Niederländisches Künstlerlexikon".

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