Christ's Descent into Limbo - The Hague

Bruegel, Jan the Elder (1568 - 1625) and Hans Rottenhammer (1564 - 1625)

1597

Location:

The Hague - Netherlands - Mauritshuis (Inv. 285)

Material:

Oil on copper

Dimensions:

26,5 x 35,5

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More information

Signed under right 'BRVEGHEL.1597'

After his death Christ descended into the underworld to Adam and Eve and liberate all the righteous and to take them to heaven. That descent is here represented by Brueghel the Elder and Rottenhammer who often worked together.

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History:

King-Stadhouder William III, Palace Het Loo, Apeldoorn, before 1697; governor or stadhouder Johan Willem Friso, Apeldoorn, 1712; Prince Willem V, The Hague until 1795; seized by the French, transferred to the Museum central des arts / Musée Napoléon (Musée du Louvre), Paris, 1795-1815; Royal Picture Gallery, housed in the Prince William V Gallery, The Hague, 1816; transferred to the Mauritshuis, 1822

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Source:

Website 'mauritshuis.nl'

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