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Documentary Plate with Coronis watched by a raven
Lost Art-ID
311345
Artist / Creator
Fontana, Guido
Birth
(um) 1490, Casteldurante
Death
(nach) 1576.10.16
Place of activity
Urbino
Title
Documentary Plate with Coronis watched by a raven
Dating
1535 (um)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Height
26.41 cm
Inventory number
Auktionskatalog London 1939, Kat.Nr. 394
Description
AN URBINO DOCUMENTARY PLATE, by Guido Durantino, signed in full, painted on the rim and shallow sunk centre with a representation of the subject of Coronis, daughter of Phlegyas, watched by a raven sent by Apollo, typical orange and yellow curtain to the right, architectural background with a river and mountains in the distance, the back inscribed "La fabula del Coruo e cornice— nella botega de Mo Guido durantino in Urbino ", circa 1535
Provenance
Munich, loss 1938;
The collection (approx. 440 works) was confiscated by the SS in Munich in 1938 on the occasion of the ‘Reichskristallnacht’ and auctioned at Sotheby's in London in 1939 (7/8 June and 19/20 July).
Published since
Contact
Please contact the German Lost Art Foundation.
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