The serene musical mood of Siegfried’s Rhine journey conveys this promising excitement and anticipation of new adventures. At the same time, it also forms the prelude to subsequent complications. These two aspects – anticipation and the suggestion of further action – can also be found in the present lot. Siegfried, beaming with youth and strength, sets off on a boat across the Rhine with the horse, Grane. The…
The Exaltation of Beauty
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Richard Wagner, Götterdämmerung, Act I, Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, by Ferdinand Leeke,1908, oil on canvas, 100 x 120 cm, private collection “Götterdämmerung” is the fourth part of the opera cycle ‘The Ring of the Nibelung’, Richard Wagner’s main work, which was written between 1848 and 1874. Siegfried’s Rhine journey takes place almost at the beginning of Götterdämmerung and follows the first scene, in which the…
The Carpenter`s Shop, by Edward William Stott (1859-1918)
Sainte Marguerite, Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne 1500-1520, de Jean Bourdichon
Johannes Bosboom, Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft
Anthony van Dyck, The Tribute Money
The title of the painting, however, through a witty transposition also refers through the furtive glance of the young woman to the myth of Psyche, who was forbidden to look at her beloved Amor, but secretly could not resist. The Japanese prints in a portfolio reveal the artist's interest in Asian art. Stevens was an early collector, and was especially fascinated by the trinkets and other exotica that better suited…
Nearby struts a small parrot, a reference to art's mimetic function. The backs of canvases and portfolios of prints or drawings represent some of Stevens's working materials. On a chair are Japanese prints, reminders of the artist's great passion: collecting Japanese art. The painting's title alludes to multiple things, most notably the myth of Psyche and Cupid and the type of large mirror depicted on the left,…
The Psyché (My Studio) by Alfred Stevens, 1871 The Psyché is noted for its realism, witticism, and allegory, three dimensions generally perceived sequentially herein. The French word psyché (meaning, as in English, both "the mind" and the ancient goddess beloved of Cupid) also designates a full-length mirror, invented in the late eighteenth century, that can be moved up and down or tilted on its chassis. Here,…
Saint John on the island of Patmos, anonymous, 16th century