Lot 665: Godfried Maes (Antwerp 1649-1700 ?)

Apollo killing Python; Apollo and Cupid; Apollo and Daphne; and Hermaphroditus and Salmacis: Illustrations for the Metamorphoses of Ovid black chalk, pen and brown and grey ink, brown and grey wash, heightened with white (1), brown ink framing lines, countermark EL (1) and watermarks cross (3) and Strasburg Lily (4) 164 x 222 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. (1-3) Anonymous sale; Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 15 January 1974, part of lot 1273 (to Dreesmann). (4) R.J. de Rydt, Leyden, acquired by Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (part of inventory no. B-91).