Anonymous Baroque artist

Lot 3040 limit € 600

Oil/canvas, relined, Scipio's generosity, depiction from Roman mythology, Publius Cornelius Scipio, called Scipio Africanus d. Ä., Roman general and politician, around 235-183 BC, received the supreme command against the Carthaginians in Spain, he received a beautiful girl as booty, Scipio learned that she had already been promised and gave her to the fiancé from whom he demanded , he should become a friend of Rome, he embodies the virtue of a ruler by renouncing his own advantage in favor of the attention of his subjects, later he defeated Hannibal in Africa, unframed, some color flaking off at the edge, c. 35.5 x 43 cm, 18th century