0472
Gennaro Basile
(Neapel 1722 - 1782 Brünn/Mähren)
„Selene and the sleeping Endymion (Diana and Endymion)“
1756
oil on canvas
70.5 × 94 cm
signed, dated and inscribed on the reverse: Non sinit Endimion te pectoris esse Seueri / Cintia: dulcis Amor Celo deduxit ab alto. – Latmia Saxa petis, quaerens solatia flammae; / Sylvarumque, canumque simul, simul immemor arcus. – Januarius Basille Nep: Invt: et Pinx: 1756
Provenance
sale Dorotheum, Salzburg, 18th November 2014, lot 10;
private collection, Salzburg
Literature
Reitinger, Franz, Die Metastasier. Geschmackseliten im 18. Jahrhundert, Salzburg 2016, p. 60 f., p. 78 (col. ill.), Gennaro Basile. Summarisches Werkverzeichnis p. 245.
Estimate: € 5.000 - 10.000
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