Cabinet Decorated with Episodes from Genesis

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

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Cabinet Decorated with Episodes from Genesis

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 worker: anonymous, Antwerp
- furniture worker: anoniem, 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
Material
Dimensions
- drawers right: height 9.2 cm x width 23 cm
- central doors: height 20.2 cm x width 9.5 cm (left and right)
- lid: height 28.2 cm x width 75.6 cm
- drawer upper centre: height 12.4 cm x width 10.5 cm
- drawers bottom: height 7.3 cm x width 15 cm (left and right)
- outer doors: height 46.5 cm x width 38.3 cm (left and right)
- overall: height 160 cm x width 108 cm x depth 49.5 cm x weight 75.8 kg
- drawers left: height 9.2 cm x width 23 cm

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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