FOUR REVERSE GLASS PAINTING WITH MYTHOLOGICAL SCENES
Augsburg. Dated 1806. After engraving templates by Bernard Picard from the year 1731; one painting inscribed F. Nester

Glass with erased leaf gold and leaf silver. Underlaid with blue paper. Framed.
a) Hercules fighting a nine-headed Hydra.
b) Arion; who was saved by a dolphin; playing a lyre.
c) Glaucus transforming into a sea god.
d) Phaethon; who fell to his death; laying on the banks of the river Eridanus; his
sisters; the Heliades are turned into poplars in their grief; his lover Kyknos is
transformed into a swan by Apollo out of compassion. 27x22cm.
The depiction of Arion inscribed lower right F. Nester fect. 1806.
Condition B/C. Enclosed: 2 small reverse glass paintings.

Provenance:
Private collection Rhineland.Art trade; Van Ham.