Lot 1075 D α

Johannes Lingelbach - Tullia Driving over the Body of her Father Servius Tullius

Auction 1076 - overview Cologne
19.11.2016, 11:00 - Old Master Paintings and Drawings, Sculpture
Estimate: 7.000 € - 10.000 €
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Johannes Lingelbach

Tullia Driving over the Body of her Father Servius Tullius

Oil on panel. 42.5 x 48.5 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: J. Lingelbach 1664.

Livius tells the tale of Servius Tullius, the sixth King of Rome, in his "Ab urbe condita". According to Livius, he was toppled and murdered by his own daughter Tullia in order to place her husband Lucius Tarquinius Superbus on the throne. As Tullia hurried to Tarquinius after the murder, she drove over her father's body with her chariot. Lingelbach depicts the haughty Tullia on the Capitoline Hill, with monuments that his contemporaries would have been familiar with - the horse tamers and the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius - in the background.

Provenance

Auctioned by Sotheby´s, New York, 7.6.1978, lot 139. - Auctioned by Christie´s, 26.1.2005, lot 202. - Private collection, Italy.