Netherlandish School, c. 1540-50

The extraordinary iconography of a single soul being judged in a contemporary Flemish landscape is seldom in paintings and probably derives from Books of Hours. Apart from a painting by Lucas Cranach I in the Museum der Bildende Kunste, Leipzig, the theme is represented in the Rohan Book of Hours of 1415-16 (Bibliotheque National, Paris) and the Katharina van Kleef Book of Hours (Pierpont Morgan Library, New York) (see S. Balace and A. de Poorter, op. cit., p. 281).