Flämischer Meister aus dem Kreis des Peter Paul... Lot n° 920
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DANIEL IN THE LIONS' DEN
Oil on two joined wooden panels.
45 x 61 cm.
In a magnificent frame.
The subject of the painting is taken from the Book of Daniel 6:1-28. In the center is Daniel, clad in a long white and bright red cloth around his hips, sitting with folded hands and looking imploringly out of an opening in the pit towards heaven. He is surrounded by a large group of lions, one of them with its mouth open. Rubens depicted the lions of a Moroccan subspecies that were in the Spanish governor's menagerie in Brussels at the time. While Daniel is depicted here as a middle-aged man, the biblical Daniel was already over 80 years old. Isolated rest.
Annotation:
The painting is entirely faithful to the original, painted around 1600, which measures 220 x 330 cm and is kept in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. (14023241) (18)
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