FLEMISH SCHOOL, VIRCA 1630

The Deluge

Details

FLEMISH SCHOOL, VIRCA 1630
The Deluge
oil on copper
10 7/8 x 13½ in. (27.8 x 34.3 cm.)

Provenance

Brabal, Avenida General Mitre, Barcelona (according to an inscription on the reverse).
with Las Meninas, Barcelona, by 1972, when acquired by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

We are grateful to Paul Taylor of the Warburg Institute for noting that the subject of a forest swallowed up by the Great Flood occurs in other sources of the first quarter of the seventeenth century, for example in compositions by Peter van Halen (Stuttgart) and Abraham Bloemaert (Yale University Art Gallery and Lugt collection). The composition takes inspiration from prints by Antonio Tempesta of both the Biblical and mythological floods (Bartsch, XVII, 35, p. 18, no. 27 (128)*, and 36, p. 13, no. 644 (151)).

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