Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
DUTCH SCHOOL, EARLY 17TH CENTURY | BIBLICAL SCENE, WITH AN ANGEL-PRIEST HEALING A KNEELING FIGURE, AS CROWDS POUR OUT OF A BURNING CITY BEHIND
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DUTCH SCHOOL, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
BIBLICAL SCENE, WITH AN ANGEL-PRIEST HEALING A KNEELING FIGURE, AS CROWDS POUR OUT OF A BURNING CITY BEHIND
Pen and brown ink, within red chalk framing lines:
bears attribution, on reverse of backing, in pencil: Elsheimer
159 by 129 mm
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Although the previous attribution to Adam Elsheimer is untenable, this intriguing and highly unusual drawing does seem to originate from the early 17th century Roman expatriate milieu in which Elsheimer worked, alongside Dutch contemporaries such as the Pynas brothers, and Leonard Bramer.
The subject also eludes definitive identification, but Elizabeth McGrath and Paul Taylor of the Warburg Institute have kindly told us that they believe it to be an allegory, rather than a specific myth.