Lot 121: Godfried Maes , Antwerp 1649 - 1700 (?) design for a ceiling decoration with allegorical virtues surrounding entwined initials over which jupiter holds a crown Pen and grey ink and wash, the identification of the virtues inscribed in pen and brown

Pen and grey ink and wash, the identification of the virtues inscribed in pen and brown ink and the intertwined initials in yellow wash, within brown wash framing lines; signed or bears inscription, in pen and brown ink verso : Maes

measurements note 200 by 360 mm

Although drawings by Maes are by no means rare, this seems to be his only surviving ceiling design. Indeed, just two other designs for decorative paintings are currently known: the Death of Achilles, in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. 153υ+ - 1941) and a design for an overdoor of Minerva flanked by the four Cardinal Virtues, in the Leiden University print room (inv. 658).