Emilianischer Maler des 17. Jahrhunderts Lot n° 309

Painting pair CHRIST AND THE ADULTERESS and LOTH AND HIS DAUGHTERS Oil on canvas. Doubled. Each 36 x 36 cm. The paintings inside as a tondo, outside as a square in a gilded magnificent frame. One painting shows the standing Christ, to whose left the scribes and Pharisees have brought a woman who has been caught in adultery, who is now kneeling in the right foreground and is to be stoned to death. The other painting shows Loth in a bright red robe and his two daughters in a cave trying to make him drunk with the help of wine. In the background is the burning city of Sodom and probably his wife, frozen to a pillar of salt. The two biblical depictions were popular motifs of the time. (1400312) (3) (18) Emilian School, 17th century Pair of paintings CHRIST AND THE ADULTERESS and LOTH AND HIS DAUGHTERS Oil on canvas. Relined. 36 x 36 cm each. Tondo painting with square surround in magnificent gilt frame.