Lot 80
80
THE LOW COUNTRIES
Jan van Rillaert (circa 1518-1568)

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Jan van Rillaert (circa 1518-1568)

The Prophet Isaiah preaching to a Crowd

inscribed 'Lectio ysaie prophete hec dicit dno / Si abstuleris de medio tui cathenam et desieris digitum exte[n]dere et loqui quod non prodest / Cum effuderis esurienti ani /ma[m]tua[m] et anima[m] afflicta[m] repleveris rietur In tenebris lux tua et tenebre tue eru[n]t sicut meridies et requiem tibi dabit dns deus tuus semper' (Isaiah 58, 9-11); brush and black ink heightened with white, on olive prepared linen
675 x 542mm.

Lot Essay

A drawing of Christ walking on the water, by the same hand in the Ashmolean Museum was attributed by A.E. Popham to van Rillaert, K.T. Parker, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Netherlandish, German, French and Spanish schools, Oxford, 1938, I, no. 68, pl. XIV

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