Aeneas Rescuing Anchises from Burning Troy

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Aeneas Rescuing Anchises from Burning Troy

Hendrick van Steenwijck the Younger (Flemish, c. 1580-1640)LinkedCulture matchlcp-2d83710f3d5e

Date
c. 1610
Medium
Oil on panel
Culture
Flanders
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
88619

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Anchises, former lover of the goddess Aphrodite, is here shown as an old man asleep in bed. In the background at right, seemingly disconnected from the quiet bedchamber, his home city of Troy burns. In this rendition of the Classical story, Hendrick van Steenwijck drops the viewer into a moment of suspended action as Anchises’s demigod son, Trojan hero Aeneas, rushes in to save his father and carry him to safety. Throughout, Steenwijck emphasizes contrasts between father and son: age and youth, light and dark, peace and chaos. The crisp and detailed depiction of the room itself attests to Steenwijck’s expertise in painting architectural interiors, a specialty he shared with his artist wife, Susanna van Steenwijck.

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Wirt D. Walker Endowment
Provenance
Walter John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 8th duke of Buccleuch, Boughton House, Kettering, Northamptonshire, from at least 1912 to 1946 [1912 Boughton House inventory, no. 158]; sold Christie’s, London, 1 November 1946, lot 137, to Soukup for 30 guineas [according to annotated catalogue in Ryerson Library]. Charlotte Frank, London, to 1962; sold by Charlotte Frank to the Art Institute of Chicago December 1962.

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