Frans Francken the Younger, attributed to - Allegory of the Four Elements - image-1

Lot 1222 Dα

Frans Francken the Younger, attributed to - Allegory of the Four Elements

Auction 1245 - overview Cologne
16.05.2024, 14:00 - Old Masters and 19th Century, Part II
Estimate: 10.000 € - 15.000 €
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Frans Francken the Younger, attributed to

Allegory of the Four Elements

Oil on panel (parquetted). 35.2 x 27.5 cm.

Stamp of the Antwerp panel makers with a gate and hands on the reverse of the panel.

The figures are closely related in style to the work of Frans Francken the Younger, while the still life elements in the foreground are reminiscent of Jan van Kessel. The figures are the Nereid Amphitrite, holding a coral and representing water, the muse Urania, holding an armillary sphere as a symbol of air, the goddess Vesta, whose torch symbolises fire, and finally the goddess Ceres with her traditional cornucopia as the element of earth.

Provenance

Private collection (Maria Almas-Dietrich), Munich, c. 1933 (?). - Evacuated to the "Gatterer" depository in Greimharting (near Prien), before 20.4.1944. - Central Collecting Point, Munich, brought in and kept there for Mimi tho Rahde (daughter and authorized representative of Maria Almas-Dietrich), 18.2.1946-4.2.1947. - Returned to the private collection of Mimi tho Rahde, Munich, 5.2.1947, - Leo Spik, Berlin, auction 676, 3.12.2020, lot 210.
- Private collection, Belgium, since 2020.