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Lot 42

A Flemish marble relief of the Rape of the Lapith women by the centaurs at the marriage of King...

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Lot 42

A Flemish marble relief of the Rape of the Lapith women by the centaurs at the marriage of King...

Price Realised: £31,440

Estimate: £6,000 - £8,000

Price realised is hammer price plus fees (31.2% Buyers Premium inclusive of VAT).

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Lot 42

Description

A Flemish marble relief of the Rape of the Lapith women by the centaurs at the marriage of King Peirithous,
Attributed to Gérard van Opstal, Flemish, 1594-1668, mid-17th century,
Carved in high and low relief, depicting a centaur clasping a woman and with four other women fleeing to the right, with a man to the left brandishing a dagger, 39cm high, 54cm wide

Provenance: Christie's, The Property of the Right Honourable Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, 2 June 1964, lot 83, 168 guineas.

Note: This dynamic sculptural relief depicts a famous scene drawn from Ovid. Pirithous, King of the Lapiths, invited the centaurs to celebrate his marriage to the beautiful Hippodamia. The drunken centaurs became out of control and the centaur Eurityon tried in vain to abduct Hippodamia. King Pirithous assisted by Theseus, later took revenge on the centaurs in a battle known as the Centauromachy, a scene depicted throughout art history, from the Parthenon to Piero di Cosimo and Peter Paul Rubens.

Gérard van Opstal was registered as apprentice to the Brussels artist Niklaas Diodone in 1621. He later collaborated with his father-in-law, the sculptor Hans van Mildert (c.1588-1638) in Antwerp. At the invitation of Cardinal Richelieu, in about 1642, van Opstal moved to Paris, where he produced architectural carvings and worked under Sarazin on the decorations of the Louvre and the Tuileries, and later on the Hôtel Carnavalet. He specialised in low-relief friezes of mythological subjects, depicting tritons, nereids, and centaurs, for numerous palaces and hôtels particuliers in and around Paris. In 1648 he helped found the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture.

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The buyer shall pay the hammer price together with a premium thereon of 26% up to £20,000 (31.2% inclusive of VAT), 25% from £20,001 - £500,000 (30% inclusive of VAT), 20% from £500,001 thereafter (24% inclusive of VAT). The premium price is subject to VAT at the standard rate.

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