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Comments: according to Unverfehrt is the attribution to Herri with Herri met de Bles uncontroversial.
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The mountainous, wooded landscape on this round painting is the paradise. Around the fountain, the source of life, are the adventures depicted by the first human couple, Adam and Eve. The Earth is surrounded by two spheres, referring to creation of Sun, Moon and stars, and to the separation of heaven and sea. Provenance: H.G. van Otterbeek Bastiaans (Deventer), Amsterdam (C.F. Roos), 31 January 1882, no. 9 (as ‘Fluweelen Brueghel’), fl. 320, to J. Balfoort, Utrecht;1 from Victor de Stuers, fl. 368, to the museum;
History:
Purchased in 1882 from HG van Otterbeeck Bastiaans from Deventer. on loan to the Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1963-97; on loan to the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, since 2004
Literature:
Winkler 1924, p. 309; Friedländer XIII, 1936, p. 136, no. 57; Tóth-Ubbens in coll. cat. The Hague 1968, pp. 8-9, no. 959; Boeke 1974, pp. 67-163; ENP XIII, 1975, p. 78, no. 57; Gibson 1989, pp. xxi, 27; Serck 1990, I, pp. 171-89, no. 1; Serck in Namur 2000, pp. 148-51, no. 1; Kloek in Van Os et al. 2000, pp. 184-85, no. 76; Wied in Essen-Vienna 2003, pp. 286-87, no. 103; Van Wegen 2005, pp. 122-23; Filedt Kok 2008b; Hendrikman/Filedt Kok 2009; Bakker 2012, pp. 106-08; Weemans 2012; Weemans 2013, pp. 61-75; Bakker 2015, pp. 115-33; Kloek/Ubl 2015
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Website 'rkd.nl'
