Christ and the woman taken in adultery, 1565 (dated)
panel (wood), oil paint, grisaille, 24.1 x 34.2 cm
- Current attribution
- Date
- 1565 (dated)
- Title
- Christ and the woman taken in adultery
- Genre
- Subject keywords
- Iconclass
Pharisees bring a woman accused of adultery before Christ (John 8:2-11)
Christ points to or writes on the ground
- Object
- Support/medium
- Shape/sizes
- 24.1 x 34.2 cm
- Artistic relationship
- Christ and the woman taken in adultery
Sellink 2007, no. 140, p. 214: '[...] both of his sons [Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Younger] made copies of the composition: Jan the Elder painted a good grisaille copy after the original in his possession (Alte Pinakothek, Munich), and Pieter the Younger a considerably less successful variant in colour, which he may have based on the print (Ertz 1998, 9),' - Christ and the woman taken in adultery
- Christ and the woman taken in adultery
paneel, 24 x 34 cm, gesigneerd: BRVEGEL . M . D. LXV., veiling Milaan (Finarte), 25-02-2009, nr. 271, als Jan Brueghel II
- Christ and the woman taken in adultery
- Collection(s)
- Viscountess Hampton
- Antoine Count Seilern
- Courtauld Institute of Art , inv./cat.nr. P. 1978. PG.48
Seilern Collection
- Auction(s)
- Christie's , Auction at Christie's, London (England) (1952-02-01), 1952-02-01, lot number: 60
Buyer: Scharf
- Christie's , Auction at Christie's, London (England) (1952-02-01), 1952-02-01, lot number: 60
- Literature in RKDLibrary
- Friedländer 1967-1976, dl. XIV, Add. 53
- Sellink 2007, p. 214, no. 140
- Other literature
- R.H. Marijnissen, Bruegel. het volledige oeuvre, Antwerpen 1988, p. 288-289, afb. in kleur
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