#allegorical

Nicolaes Maes (b.1634 - d.1693), ‘Portrait of a Boy in Classical Dress with a Bullfinch and Spaniel’, oil on panel, no date (est. 1660s/1670s), Dutch, sold by Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts to The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, USA.

Fritz Zuber Buhler (b.1822 - d.1896), ‘La Source’, oil on canvas, no date (1800s), Swiss, sold for 37,500 USD in Sotheby’s Old Master & 19th Century Art sale, January 2014; New York, NY, USA.

Jean Baptiste Poncet (b.1827 - d.1901), ‘Allegorie de la Nuit ou Diane sur un char tire par des Hiboux’, oil on canvas, c.1884, French, for sale for 6,000 - 8,000 CHF in Beurret & Bailly’s Important Paintings sale, March 2021; Basel, Switzerland.