SIR DAVID WILKIE, R.A. (CULTS, FIFE 1785-1841 GIBRALTAR)

Lot 203
08.12.2021 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 203 | SIR DAVID WILKIE, R.A. (CULTS, FIFE 1785-1841 GIBRALTAR)
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£ 5 000 – 8 000
SIR DAVID WILKIE, R.A. (CULTS, FIFE 1785-1841 GIBRALTAR)
Diana and Actaeon
signed and dated 'D Wilkie 1818' (upper left, on the reverse)
oil on panel
5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm.)

This essay in the manner of Titian, a rare engagement on Wilkie’s part with the subject of the nude, likely takes as its primary inspiration Titian’s work of the same name and its companion piece Diana and Callisto (jointly owned by the National Gallery, London and National Gallery, Edinburgh), which Wilkie would have seen in the collection of the Marquis of Strafford. The nymph to the far right seems to have been drawn from the figure of Ariadne in Bacchus and Ariadne (National Gallery, London), Wilkie has even dressed her in corresponding blue and red.
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