Nymphenburg vase with copies of paintings

This gold-plated portrait vase is one of two similar exemplars listed since 2019 in the Residenzgalerie’s inventory. Both were owned by Archduke Ludwig Viktor and were ornamental pieces in Klessheim Palace near Salzburg.
Set on a square base and a profiled foot is a chalice with curled handles. On each side is a scene taken from a painting in the Bavarian Painting Gallery. "Jesus and John at a young age" is a copy after a painting by an artist of the Rubens school (Staatsgalerie Schleissheim, inv. no. 1296). The sleeping woman is a detail from a work by Nicolas Poussin – "Midas and Bacchus" –, with changes made to the landscape (Alte Pinakothek, Munich, inv. no. 528); her pose is similar to that in the famous Hellenistic sculpture, the "Sleeping Ariadne".

Habersatter Thomas: Nymphenburger vase with copies of paintings, in: Ducke Astrid, Habersatter Thomas (Hrsg./Edi.): von | from 0 auf | to 100. Residenzgalerie Salzburg 1923-2023. Salzburg 2023, S./p. 284-285