Lot 162
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Maarten Pepyn (Antwerp 1575-1642/3)
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Maarten Pepyn (Antwerp 1575-1642/3)

The wedding feast of Bacchus and Ariadne

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Maarten Pepyn (Antwerp 1575-1642/3)
The wedding feast of Bacchus and Ariadne
inscribed 'Martinus . Päpÿn' (on the reverse)
oil on copper
18¾ x 24½ in. (47.6 x 62.3 cm.)
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Lot Essay

We are grateful to Drs. Luuk Pijl for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs, and dating the work to circa 1600-1610.
The composition derives from an engraving of circa 1580 by Jan Sadeler I after a design by Dirck Barendsz, Mankind Awaiting the Deluge (see J.R. Judson, Dirck Barendsz, 1970, pp. 126-31, nos. 71-2). In Pepyn's work the ark and deluge are omitted and two putti are added, thus converting the subject into The wedding feast of Bacchus and Ariadne (Ovid, VIII, 171-82).

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