Vulcan Presenting the Arms of Aeneas to Venus (after Boucher) and The Triumph of Amphitrite (after Taraval): Two
Each signed Ch. Schreiber and inscribed with the names of the original artists. The first dated 1894 (lr); on the second, the signature is partly effaced; it is also inscribed d'apres Taraval (ll)
Oil on canvas laid to board
Each 60 x 43 1/4 inches (152.5 x 110 cm)
Frames 63 1/2 x 47 inches (161.4 x 119.4 cm)
François Boucher's painting of Vulcan Presenting the Arms of Aeneas to Venus is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris; Hugues Taraval's Triumph of Amphitrite is in the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College.
Provenance:
[Sale] Sotheby's New York, Old Master Paintings, sale 6991, May 22, 1997, lot 101
The artist of this pair may have been Charles Baptiste Schreiber (1845-1903), a genre painter who made his debut at the Salon in 1868 and received an honorable mention in 1901.

Laid to particle board. Scattered small losses in the upper and lower registers of each painting; some shadows and contours reinforced.

Laid to particle board. Scattered small losses in the upper and lower registers of each painting; some shadows and contours reinforced.

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