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Scene from the Wedding of Messalina and Gaius Silius, possibly an episode from a Play (Brothel Scene)
Brothel Scene, possibly an Episode from a Story
Scène uit het huwelijk van Messalina en Gaius Silius. Centrale figuren zijn Gaius Silius gekleed in militair tenue met toneellaarsjes aan en een wijnglas in zijn hand en Messalina, een mooie welgevormde jonge vrouw met ontblote borsten die Gaius vanaf een bed meesleept. Op het bed links een vrouw met een hoed op de rechtervoet die met haar rechterhand de binnenkant van Gaius dijbeen beroert. Op ta…
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/41C52
- http://iconclass.org/98C(MESSALINA)21
- http://iconclass.org/47I422
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Gift of the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/41C52
- http://iconclass.org/98C(MESSALINA)21
- http://iconclass.org/47I422
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Gift of the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- c.1645 - c.1655
Place-Time
- second quarter 17th century
- third quarter 17th century
Provenance
- …; collection Louis Philippe Joseph, Duc d'Orléans (1747-93), Palais Royal, Paris, after 1788;{Inscription, engraving, Jan-Louis Delignon, as J.B. Weenix, La Gaieté Bachique, 1808; illustrated in Couché III, 1808, unpag. For the period of acquisition see also the entry.} from whom, with the other Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Orléans collection, fr. 350,000, to Thomas Moore Slade, London, 1792/93;{Buchanan 1882, I, pp. 159-64; Sutton 1982, pp. 359-62.} his sale, London, Pall Mall (auction house not known), April 1793, no. 251, as J.B. Weenix (‘The debauch’);{GPI, Br-A5163.} …; ? sale, Auguste-Louis-César-Hipolite-Théodore de L’Espinasse de Langeac, Comte d'Arlet, Paris (Constantin), 4 January 1815 sqq., no. 204, as N. Knupfer (‘L'enfant prodigue avec ses maîtresses, ou peut-être un musico hollandaise, sur bois’); …; sale, William Wilkins (1778-1839, Cambridge), London (Christie's), 22 May 1830, no. 2, as Jan Baptist Weenix (‘The Prodigal Son, or La Gaieté bacchique, as it was denominated when in the Orleans collection. An inscription on the back of the panel states it to have been one of the Tableaux reclamés de St. Cloud, from which palace it had been surreptitiously abstracted. Houbraken, in his Lives of the Painters, notices this picture as being one of the most celebrated of this master’), bought in at 40 gns;{Copy RKD. See the entry for the inscription referred to in this sale catalogue.} …; collection Count André Mniszech (1823-1905), Paris;{Note RMA. Not located in the sale catalogue of his collection: sale, Countess André Mniszech, Paris (H. Baudoin, Hôtel Drouot), 10 May 1910.} …; collection Adolphe Schloss (c. 1842/43-1910) and his wife, Lucie Schloss (1858-1938), Paris; confiscated by the Nazis from their children, Château de Chambon, near Tulle, 1943; restituted to the Schloss family after World War II; their sale, Paris (Galerie Charpentier), 25 May 1949, no. 28, fr. 480,000;{Copy RMA. According to the catalogue for the sale, The Duke of Beaufort et al., London (Sotheby’s), 10 December 1980, no. 62, the painting was purchased at the 1949 sale by a member of the family who brought it into the 1980 sale.} …; private collection, Le Verviers, near Liège;{Note RMA.} …; sale, The Duke of Beaufort et al., London (Sotheby’s), 10 December 1980, no. 62, £18,000, to the dealer Hoogsteder; from whom purchased by the museum as a gift from the Rijksmuseum- Stichting, 1981
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.12052
- SK-A-4779
Extent
- height 60 cm
- width 74.5 cm
- depth 6.5 cm
Format
- panel
- oil paint (paint)
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:17:02.813Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:38:09.907Z