A GROUP DEPICTING BELISAR AND THE YOUNG SOLDIER

Description:

probably Closter Veilsdorf, circa 1790
20,3 x 26,5 x 16,5 cm
Natural plinth, without mark. Restorations and partially chipped.
Jan Ahlers Collection
Belisar (ca. 505-565), a famous general under Justinian, spent his life humiliated and in poverty in Constantinople after he has been falsely accused of high treason. In the art of the 17th and 18th century art, he is depicted as an old, blind beggar at the moment a young soldier recognises him.