Noah's Sacrifice, plate IX from The Creation and Early History of Man

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Noah's Sacrifice, plate IX from The Creation and Early History of Man

Jan WierixLinkedCulture matchlcp-c5f8fb123cb7

Date
1606
Medium
Pen and brown ink on parchment
Culture
Flanders
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
127364

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After surviving the Flood, Noah’s family gives thanks by sacrificing an animal. Antwerp-born Jan Wierix showed this ancient scene of thanksgiving from above, with an almost all-seeing view of the family, their sacrifice, God appearing in a cloud, and the vessel of their salvation (the ark) shown in the background at left. This subject is one of 20 in the series titled The Creation and Early History of Man . The delicacy of the line work and the drawing’s presentation on the durable material of vellum suggest that Wierix intended this series of miniature drawings to serve as treasured possessions for a devoted collector of fine and precious things.

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Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Provenance
Possibly, Emperor Rudolf II (1552–1611), Prague. Baron Adalbart von Lanna (1836–1909), Prague [stamp (Lugt 2773), verso, lower left, in brown]; sold, Gutekunst, Stuttgart, May 6–11, 1910, lot 596. Mrs. Toni Straus-Negbaur (died 1942), Berlin-Grunewald [stamp (Lugt 2459a), verso, lower left, in black]; sold, Cassirer, Berlin, Nov. 25–26, 1930, lot 118. Private collection, Germany. Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel, Munich, by 1993; sold to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, Mass, Jan. 11, 1994; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

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