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Armorial Plate with Cacus the Robber stealing Hercules` Oxen

Lost Art-ID
311139
Artist / Creator
Avelli, Francesco Xanto
Birth
1486/1487?, Rovigo (?)
Death
1542?
Place of activity
Urbino, Faenza (?)
First mentioned
1520/1525
Last mentioned
1542
Title
Armorial Plate with Cacus the Robber stealing Hercules` Oxen
Dating
1532 (um)
Object type
Crafts and other folk arts
Group of reported objects
Crafts and other folk arts
Height
25.90 cm
Inventory number
Auktionskatalog London 1939, Kat.Nr. 189
Description
A FINE URBINO ARMORIAL PLATE, by Fra. Xanto Avelli, signed in full, decorated in brilliant colours with Cacus the Robber stealing Hercules' oxen by dragging them backwards, Hercules in a lion skin with a green club is depicted about to strike him, in the distance further cattle and views in blue and to the right the arms of the Pucci Family charged upon a Papal Gonfalon, the underside inscribed in blue " 1532 D'Hercole S- Cacco a I'Auetino monte ? Nel. VIIII. Libro de Ouidio Met: fra: Xanto: A. da Rovigo I urbino ", circa 1532
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
2005
Contact
Please contact the German Lost Art Foundation.
Circumstances of loss reported as
Nazi-confiscated property
Search Request, Person

Pringsheim, Alfred

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