Circe Punishes Glaucus by Turning Scylla into a Monster, Eglon van der Neer, 1695

Identification

Title(s)

Circe Punishes Glaucus by Turning Scylla into a Monster
Circe Punishing Glaucus by transforming Scylla into a Monster

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-4874

Inscriptions / marks

signature and date: ‘... 1695’

Description

Circe straft Glaucus door Scylla in een monster te veranderen. De tovenares Circe staat rechts voor een rotswand met in de handen een brandende fakkel en een bord met vuur, in het water Scylla en Glaucus. Rechts op een rots kijkt een draak toe.

Creation

Artist

painter: Eglon van der Neer

Dating

1695

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

Measurements

height 64 cm × width 53.3 cm
depth 3.8 cm

Subject

What

Scylla changed into a sea-monster: Circe, to whom Glaucus has applied for aid in his love suit, changes Scylla the sea-nymph into a sea-monster (Ovid, Metamorphoses XIV 59)

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Fonds, the Rijksmuseum-Stichting, the G.H. Sant Bequest and the ministerie van WVC

Acquisition

purchase 1990

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

Inv.; …; sale, the Earl of Yarborough et al. [section Captain John Alexander Maylin Vipan, 1849-1939, Stibbington Hall, Stibbington, Cambridgeshire], London (Sotheby’s), 28 June 1939, no. 150, £ 5.0.0, to the dealer Siegfried Berendt, London;{Copy RKD.}…; sale, Stockholm (AB Stockholms Auktionsverkets), 16 April 1985 sqq., no. 568, as Willem van Mieris, SEK 20,000;{Note RMA.}…; anonymous sale [section 'Various Properties'], London (Christie’s), 12 december 1986, no. 53, £ 6,000, to Artemis Fine Arts Services, for the dealer Nicholas Stogdon, New York;{Note RMA.} from whom, fl. 280,000, to the museum, with support from the bequest of G.H. Sant, Amsterdam, 1990

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Documentation

All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue : first supplement: 1976-91, p. 70
De Hollandse fijnschilders van Gerard Dou tot Adriaen van der Werff [ : 1 1989a], Peter Alexander Hecht
Eglon van der Neer, Franz Ertinger en Joseph Werner de Jonge: notities bij een aanwinst, Guido M.C. Jansen
Keuze uit recente schenkingen en legaten, p. 292-293, afb. 4
Eglon van der Neers Tobias en de engel in het Rijksmuseum, Eddy Schavemaker, afb. 2
Van giften, hun juridisch-fiscale vormgeving en van beloning voor vrijgevigheid, J.M. Bol
De belangrijkste aanwinsten, tentoonstellingen en andere gebeurtenissen : 18 september 1989 - 1 december 1996 = The most important acquisitions, exhibitions and other events : 18 September 1989 - 1 December 1996, Kees Schoemaker, p. 289-290, afb. 3

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.10552

Questions?

Do you have a remark or extra information on this object? Please let us know!