Cabinet Decorated with Episodes from Genesis

anonymous, c. 1640

Cabinet. Softwood, veneered with ebony, decorated with painted scenes from the book of Genesis. Antwerp, c. 1650.

  • Artwork typefurniture, case furniture, collector's cabinet
  • Object numberBK-NM-4789
  • Dimensionsoverall: height 160 cm x width 108 cm x depth 49.5 cm x weight 75.8 kg, lid: height 28.2 cm x width 75.6 cm, outer doors: height 46.5 cm x width 38.3 cm (left and right), drawer upper centre: height 12.4 cm x width 10.5 cm, drawers left: height 9.2 cm x width 23 cm, drawers right: height 9.2 cm x width 23 cm, central doors: height 20.2 cm x width 9.5 cm (left and right), drawers bottom: height 7.3 cm x width 15 cm (left and right)
  • Physical characteristicsoil on panel

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Cabinet Decorated with Episodes from Genesis

  • Object type

  • Object number

    BK-NM-4789

  • Description

    Kunstkast belijmd met ebbenhout op een lindehouten kern. De frontdeuren dragen kussenpanelen met cornislijsten. De zijkanten hebben koperen handvatten. In de kap is een bergruimte en in het voetstuk twee laden. Geopend vertoont het meubel een portiek van Toscaanse colonetten met een gebroken fronton. Aan weerszijden vier laden, erboven één. Op de laden, de binnenzijde der frontdeuren en het deksel van de kap geschilderede taferelen uit Genesis met Adam en Eva, Kaïn en Abel. Achter de deurtjes spiegels.

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Creation

  • Creation

    • furniture maker (person): anonymous, Antwerp
    • painter: Frans Francken (II) [rejected attribution]
    • painter: Hans Jordaens (III)

  • Dating

    c. 1640

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    oil on panel

  • Dimensions

    • overall: height 160 cm x width 108 cm x depth 49.5 cm x weight 75.8 kg
    • lid: height 28.2 cm x width 75.6 cm
    • outer doors: height 46.5 cm x width 38.3 cm (left and right)
    • drawer upper centre: height 12.4 cm x width 10.5 cm
    • drawers left: height 9.2 cm x width 23 cm
    • drawers right: height 9.2 cm x width 23 cm
    • central doors: height 20.2 cm x width 9.5 cm (left and right)
    • drawers bottom: height 7.3 cm x width 15 cm (left and right)

Acquisition and rights

  • Acquisition

    purchase 1880-02-16

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; collection Balthasar Theodorus, Baron van Heemstra van Froma en Eibersburen (1809-78), Leiden and The Hague;{Lunsingh Scheurleer et al. supposed that the cabinet was already in Van Heemstra’s collection when he lived at Rapenburg, 26, Leiden from 1862-69, see T.H. Lunsingh Scheurleer, C.W. Fock and A.J. van Dissel (eds.), _Het Rapenburg. Geschiedenis van een Leidse gracht_, 6 vols., Leiden 1986-92, IVb, pp. 558, 559 fig. 12; he subsequently lived in The Hague where he died.} his sale, The Hague (C. van Doorn), 16 February 1880 _sqq_., no. 520, fl. 560, to the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague (inv. no. 4789); transferred to the museum, 1883; on loan to the Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, 2011-12, and the Museum Rockoxhuis, Antwerp, 2013-17

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