David Vinckboons (1576-1632)

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David Vinckboons (1576-1632)

A Design for a Titlepage

with signature 'D VINGBOONS'; pen and brown ink, grey-brown wash heightened with white (partly oxidised), incised for transfer, the lower part reattached on the same early backing
150 x 93 mm.
Provenance
Private collection, Amsterdam, 1971

Lot Essay

Professor Christian Tümpel has kindly pointed out that the kneeling figures in the lower centre could be Adam and Eve beeing freed from their grave by the Virtues; to the right is Hope pointing to the Birth of Christ at the right. Love and Faith point to the Crucifixion at the left. The lower section, between Moses and Aaron, would seem to show the young Cain and Abel, Adam and Eve beyond.
At the upper section the Tetragram is written in reverse for the print to be made after it, below it are two virtues with a sword (Justice) and a palm branch (Victory of the Just). To the right the scouts are bringing fruit to the Promised Land

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