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Christian Wilhelm Dietrich, 1712-1774

Lot and his daughters, n/d, oil on board. 45x33 cm

Private Collection

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Fritz Ilg, German 19th Century

Echo, 1902, oil on canvas, 170.2x86.4 cm

Private Collection (Dorotheum)

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Johann Georg Platzer, 1704-1761

Allegory of the Four Seasons, ca.1750, oil on copper, 48x66 cm

Private Collection

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Leto / Artemis

Votive relief from the Sanctuary, from left to right- Zeus enthroned, Leto, Apollo, and Artemis, ca. 420/400 BC, found Artemis and Iphigenia at Brauron, Attica

National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece

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Anonyme italien XVIIème siècle (Ancienne attribution Jacob Jordaens, 1593-1678)

Vénus aux forges de Vulcain, n/d, huile sur toile, 34x41 cm

Musée des Beaux-Arts Bordeaux, Inv. Bx M 7183

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Leonardo Grazia called Leonardo da Pistoia, 1503-ca.1548

Lucrezia, ca.1541/45, oil on panel, 93x60 cm

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Inv. 2018.013

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Gian Antonio Pellegrini, 1675-1741

Scipio’s magnanimity, n/d, oil on canvas, 105x130 cm

Private Collection

The painting depicts an episode in the life of Scipio The African, who is mentioned for the first time in Livio (26.50), mentioned again in Polybius (10, 17, 19) and rhymed in Petrarch (Africa, 4, 375-388). The Roman leader Scipio, having conquered the Spanish city of New Carthage, is being offered a young woman as part of his victor’s booty. But upon learning that the girl has been betrothed, Scipio summons Allucio, the man she was supposed to marry, and returns her to him, along with the sum of ransom that the girl’s relatives had managed to scrape together and offered to him, in the hopes of freeing her. This was a rather popular theme in Venetian painting between the 17th and 18th century. The most evident compositional and thematic prototype, which inspired many others, is to be found in the paintings of Sebastiano Ricci at Palazzo Marucelli-Fenzi in Florence and at the National Gallery of Parma. (Galleria Giamblanco, Torino)