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Dish on Foot with Achilles and Hector

Lost Art-ID

311231

Artist / Creator

Avelli, Francesco Xanto

Birth

1486/1487?, Rovigo (?)

Death

1542?

Place of activity

Urbino, Faenza (?)

First mentioned

1520/1525

Last mentioned

1542

Title

Dish on Foot with Achilles and Hector

Dating

1538 (um)

Object type

Crafts and other folk arts

Group of reported objects

Crafts and other folk arts

Height

26.03 cm

Inventory number

Auktionskatalog London 1939, Kat.Nr. 281

Description

AN URBINO DISH ON FOOT, by Fra. Xanto Avelli, signed on front and back, finely drawn and painted with Achilles about to kill Hector in front of the walls of Troy, both depicted on horses, holding shields with swords in their hands, in the foreground a broken bridge and a river god with inscription " XANTUS. F.", the underside inscribed "Entr'al fiume Hettor' oppresso X-1538 ", circa 1538

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.