AUGUSTUS LEOPOLD EGG (BRITISH 1816-1863) THREE STUDIES FOR THE DEVIL UPON TWO STICKS Oil on canvas One inscribed 'Sketch Augustus Egg, Painted 1844' (on the reverse) Two 20 x 25cm (7¾ x 9¾ in.) and one 19 x 23cm (3) Provenance: N. Mitchell, London Sale, Christie's, 16th(?), 1943, Lot 128, A. L. EGG, R.A., THE DEVIL ON TWO STICKS, and two other sketches, [Three in one frame], 8 guineas to 'Merchant' One of the studies, entitled The Victim is for a finished picture in Tate Britain (illustrated in the 1851 Art Journal) and another is for a finished picture in Sheffield Art Galleries. The Devil upon Two Sticks, by the French writer Alain-René Lesage was published as Le Diable Boiteux in 1707. It is set in Madrid, and tells the story of demon king Asmodeus, Donna Thomasa. It is sometimes known in English as Asmodeus, and sometimes as The Devil on Two Sticks, under which title the first English translation appeared in 1708, and was dramatised by Henry Fielding in 1768.
AUGUSTUS LEOPOLD EGG (BRITISH 1816-1863) THREE STUDIES FOR THE DEVIL UPON TWO STICKS Oil on canvas One inscribed 'Sketch Augustus Egg, Painted 1844' (on the reverse) Two 20 x 25cm (7¾ x 9¾ in.) and one 19 x 23cm (3) Provenance: N. Mitchell, London Sale, Christie's, 16th(?), 1943, Lot 128, A. L. EGG, R.A., THE DEVIL ON TWO STICKS, and two other sketches, [Three in one frame], 8 guineas to 'Merchant' One of the studies, entitled The Victim is for a finished picture in Tate Britain (illustrated in the 1851 Art Journal) and another is for a finished picture in Sheffield Art Galleries. The Devil upon Two Sticks, by the French writer Alain-René Lesage was published as Le Diable Boiteux in 1707. It is set in Madrid, and tells the story of demon king Asmodeus, Donna Thomasa. It is sometimes known in English as Asmodeus, and sometimes as The Devil on Two Sticks, under which title the first English translation appeared in 1708, and was dramatised by Henry Fielding in 1768.
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