Lot 248: w - DANIEL DE VOS ANTWERP 1568 - 1605

a pair, both signed lower right: Daniel de Vos and Daniel de Vos Fecit

inscribed: EGIDII GRATAM SOBOLEM TECIT UMBRA CAVERNAE, QVEM FERA CAPTANTI PRAEDAM CANI PRODIDIT ALTRIX/ VBERIBVS NVTRIT CERCA DAT HERBA DAPES. NEC VIRTVS ANTRO CALVSA LATERE POTEST and OMNIBVS EXEMPLO SOECLIS ARSENIVS HIC EST CAESARIBVS MVLTV FVIT VTILIS ANTE LQVENDO/ AVLAI FVGIENS, ATQZ QVIETIS AMANS. OMNIBVS VTILIOR DEINDE TACENDO FVIT.
both oil on canvas

SAINT EUSTACE;
SAINT ARSENIUS

each: 147.3 by 190.5 cm.; 58 by 75 in.

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

Anonymous sale ('Property of a Lady'), London, Christie's, 5 July 1996, lot 345.

QUANTITY: 2

Saint Arsenius spent ten years at the at the imperial court in Constantinople, where he was the tutor to the Emperors Arcadius and Honorius. He later escaped to the Eygptian desert where he lived until the age of 95. Saint Eustace was a Roman General who was converted to Christianity while out hunting. He is the patron saint of huntsmen.