Lot 176: ATTRIBUTED TO CHRISTIAN VAN COUWENBERGH

ATTRIBUTED TO CHRISTIAN VAN COUWENBERGH DELFT 1604-1667 COLOGNE AENEAS TAKING LEAVE FROM DIDO oil on canvas 159.5 by 179.5 cm.; 62 7/8 by 70 1/2 in.

A. Blankert, Dutch Classicism in seventeenth-century painting, exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam/Frankfurt 1999, reproduced p. 159, figure 24b (called "A Warrior Kneeling before a Woman on a Throne", as attributed to Christian van Couwenbergh).

Additional literature:

B van Haute, `Willem Bartsius and the art of Dutch history painting', in Oud Holland, vol. 121, 2008, no. 4, pp. 218-220, 223, 224, 225, 244, reproduced p. 219, fig. 2.



In Bernadette van Haute's monographic article, which includes as an Appendix a catalogue raisonné of Bartsius' known works grouped by subject, she points out that this is the earliest signed and dated work by the artist, probably painted when the 19-year old artist was living in Leiden.