Claes Cornelisz. Moeyaert - Cincinnatus Appointed Dictator - image-1

Lot 1040 Dα

Claes Cornelisz. Moeyaert - Cincinnatus Appointed Dictator

Auction 1141 - overview Cologne
16.11.2019, 11:00 - Paintings and Drawings 15th - 19th C.
Estimate: 5.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 3.968 € (incl. premium)
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Claes Cornelisz. Moeyaert

Cincinnatus Appointed Dictator

Oil on panel. 52.5 x 82.5.
Signed and dated lower left: Cl Moeyaert 1625.

This early work by Claes Moeyaert depicts the appointment of Cincinnatus as dictator, an event recorded in Livy's History of Rome (Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, III, 26). The patrician Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus lived a secluded life as a farmer until the senate appointed him dictator in 456 BC, hoping that he would rescue Rome from its enemies. After doing this, Cincinnatus returned to his plough and thus became a shining example of Roman virtue.

Provenance

The van Goeden Collection, The Hague. - Auctioned by Koller, Zurich. - Swiss private collection. - German private collection.

Literature

Astrid Tümpel: Claes Coernelisz.Moeyaert. In: Oud Holland, LXXXVIII (1974), no. 182, illus. 112. - Kurt Müllenmeister: Meer und Land im Licht des 17. Jahrhunderts. Bremen 1978, vol. 2., p. 96-97, no. 256, illus.