Lot 661: Godfried Maes (Antwerp 1649-1700 ?)

The Creation of Land and Sea; The Creation of Man; The Flood; and Deucalion and Pyrrha repopulating the earth: Illustrations for the Metamorphoses of Ovid black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash, brown ink framing lines, countermark EL (1 and 2), watermarks cross (3) and Strasburg Lily (4) 166 x 221 mm. and smaller (4) PROVENANCE The artist's widow, sold as a series of 83 illustrations for the Metamorphoses, to Jacob de Wit, Amsterdam, before 1717; de Leth, Amsterdam, 10 March 1755, portfolio U, no. 87. B. Cronenburgh; Amsterdam, 22 March 1762, portfolio A, no. 1. Anonymous sale; Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 15 January 1974, part of lot 1273 (to Dreesmann). Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (part of inventory no. B-91).