Live Auction 8055Living With Art - A Private European Collection, Day Sale
FLEMISH SCHOOL, VIRCA 1630
Lot 799

FLEMISH SCHOOL, VIRCA 1630

The Deluge

Closed10 February 2012

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GBP 2,250

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

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

Specialist note

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)).