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Lot 46
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Frans Francken the Younger Antwerp 1581 - 1642

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Description

  • Frans Francken the Younger
  • the last judgement
  • signed and dated lower left: FT. F. FRANKEN FECIT/INVENTOR Ao 1606
  • oil on copper, the reverse stamped with the makers'mark of Peeter Stas (c.1565-after 1616) and the date 1604

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Lokeren, De Vuyst, 7 March 1998, lot 526.

Literature

U. Härting, Frans Francken der Jüngere (1581-1642), Freren 1989, p. 276, cat. no. 174, reproduced.

Catalogue Note

Inscribed on the reverse of the copper plate: GiudoVniuo/del/Franch Ollan/dese/N. 11.

This picture, dated 1606, was painted before Spain and the northern provinces agreed to an armistice in 1609. In 1585 Antwerp was conquered by the Spaniards under Alexander Farnese and thus only the Catholic faith was recognized. The re-catholization of Antwerp left its mark on the arts, which is also visible in the early oeuvre of Francken the Younger. Painted when he was twenty-five, this is one of his rare dated biblical scenes from his middle period (from circa 1610-1620).

Härting mentions only two dated pictures from 1606, the present work and a Christ on the Cross, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (inv. no. 1078; see Literature below, pp. 291 and 381).