LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

15.75 in. (40.00 cm.) (height) by 19.37 in. (49.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

indistinctly signed and dated '16 [ACH] ...' (lower left), and with inventory number '34' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Essen, Kulturstiftung Ruhr Villa Hügel, Prag um 1600: Kunst und Kultur am Hofe Rudolfs II, 10 June-30 October 1988, no. 101 (catalogue note by E. Fucíková).

Literature:

R. van der Heiden, in G. Meissner, ed., Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon, Leipzig, I, 1983. T. DaCosta Kaufmann, The School of Prague: Painting at the Court of Rudolf II, Chicago and London, 1988, pp. 143-4, no. 1.32, illustrated. E. Fucíková, in the catalogue of the exhibition, Prague um 1600: Kunst und Kultur am Hofe Kaiser Rudolfs II, Freren, 1988, I, p. 218, no. 101, illustrated; and p. 199, pl. 15. J. Jacoby, Hans von Aachen, Munich and Berlin, 2000, pp. 147-48, no. 43, illustrated. T. Fusenig, ed., Hans von Aachen: Court Artist in Europe, Aachen, Prague and Vienna, 2010, pp. 27-8, fig. 27.

Provenance:

Painted for the Imperial collection of Rudolf II, Prague, where possibly recorded in an inventory of 1621 as Pan and Selene. Sold to the art dealer Daniel de Briers in 1623 and recorded in an inventory dated 30 March 1623, no. 34, 'Buhlschaft Venus mit zwei satyri'. London art market, circa 1984, where acquired by the present owner.