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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This extraordinary painting is considered to be among the artist's finest work. It was probably acquired by Sir John Bacon, possibly from Engelsz. himself, in 1613 and has remained in Norfolk ever since. This engaging type of composition which places the more important, religious subject matter as a detail in the background of a modern genre scene, follows the example set by an earlier generation Flemish artists, including Pieter Aertsen, whose Meat Stall includes a depiction of the Flight into Egypt in the distance (North Carolina Museum of Art 93.2), and Joachim Beuckelaer, who incorporated a representation of Christ in the House of Martha and Mary within a busy sixteenth-century kitchen scene (National Gallery 6588). Nathaniel Bacon was a skilled painter himself and produced a number of large kitchen scenes no doubt inspired by the example of Engelsz. and his forerunenrs (see, for example, Bacon's Cookmaid with Still Life of Vegetables and Fruit of c. 1620-5 at the Tate Gallery, T06995). | Subjects: | religion (The Supper at Emmaus); figure; interior; still life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Engelsz., Cornelis (Dutch painter, born 1574 or 1575, died 1650) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8531... | Go to resource |
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