Monumental European Old Master Figural Oil Painting
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A fine and large Old Master oil painting on canvas in period carved and gilt wood frame. European, circa: 1800's. Measuring: 60" by 50". In the Style of such masters as Poussin and Titian from 16th and 17th centuries.
An Imposing oil painting follower or in the Style of Titian(1485-1576), and Nicolas Pousin (1594-1665).
This example of old master figural painting depicting a scene of 'Midas and Bacchus'.
Midas is depicted penitently before Bacchus, a drunken Silenus sleeping nearby. Another version of the subject by Poussin (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) depicts Midas washing in the river, while the river god reclines on his urn.
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Literature:
In Greek legend Midas was a king of Phrygia who was granted a wish by Bacchus in return for a good deed he had done to Silenus, a follower of the god. Midas wished that everything he touched be turned to gold, but soon realized his mistake when all food became inedible. Bacchus ordered him to wash in the River Pactolus in Lydia. Hence the popular aetiology of the gold-bearing properties of the river, thought to have been the source of wealth of the kings of Lydia, of whom Croesus was the last.
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Oil and frame in excellent condition.
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*POR: Price On Request
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