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Lot 1564 Dα

Jan Wildens - Landscape with Meleager and Atalanta

Auction 1118 - overview Cologne
17.11.2018, 11:00 - Old Master Paintings and Drawings / Sculpture
Estimate: 7.000 € - 9.000 €
Result: 8.680 € (incl. premium)

Jan Wildens

Landscape with Meleager and Atalanta

Oil on panel. 47 x 72 cm.

Following his training with Peter Verhulst and a stay in Italy, Jan Wildens entered the flourishing workshop of Peter Paul Rubens in Antwerp. There he specialised in landscapes, working together with Rubens and other masters of the workshop.
The figures in this late forest landscape, dating from around 1640, illustrate a story from ancient mythology. The tale of Atalanta and Meleager is related in Ovid's Metamorphoses: When King Oinos fails to make a sacrifice to Diana, the goddess of the hunt, she sends a seemingly invincible wild boar, which Atalanta and Meleager were eventually able to kill by joining forces.

Provenance

Collection of Dr. Albrecht Beckh, Bamberg. - Auctioned by Lempertz Cologne 19.11.1981, lot 277. - South German private collection.

Literature

Wolfgang Adler: Jan Wildens. Der Landschaftsmitarbeiter des Rubens. Fridingen 1980, no. 114, no. 217, illus. 149.