Belshazar's Feast

Details

After Jan Harmensz. Muller
Belshazar's Feast
inscribed MANE/IHETEL.PHARES upper right
oil on panel, unframed
57.8 x 99.7 cm
the support is branded with the coat-of-arms of the City of Antwerp and with a panel maker's mark

Provenance

Helga-Christa Wienholz (stamp on the reverse).

Lot Essay

The composition follows the engraving of 1598 (Bartsch I;II). For the impact of this engraving and an explanation of it's composition see J.P. Filedt Kok, "Jan Harmensz. Muller as Printmaker I", in Print Quarterly , 1994, XI, p.244, fig. 123/4.

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