Description
Large convex oak panel carved in high relief depicting Elijah being fed by an angel (II. Kings, 19, 1-8). The prophet is sleeping in the desert, lying under a tree symbolizing a broom; on the right, an angel comes to bring him a cake cooked on the embers and a jug of water according to the legend. Flanders, workshop of Mathieu van Beveren (1630-1690), second half of the 17th century Height : 84 cm - Width : 49 cm - Depth : 11,5 cm (reinforcements, accident on one side) The fine features and the straight nose of the angel's face as well as his curly hair with the thick lock of hair above his forehead are similar to those of the angel supporting the pulpit of the church of Our Lady of Dendermonde, made in 1681 by Mathieu van Beveren. The treatment of the wings is quite comparable, with the same double row of rounded feathers at the top, falling on longer, tapered ones. This Flemish sculptor, who was born in Antwerp in 1630 and died in Brussels in 1690, also made the high altar in the church of Saint Nicholas in Ghent (1677-1678), the funerary monuments of Gaspard Boest in the church of Saint James in Antwerp (1665) and of Lamoral Claude-François, Count of Tour et Taxis in the church of Sablon in Brussels (1678). Book consulted: P. Philippot, L'architecture religieuse et la sculpture baroques dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux et la principauté de Liège 1600-1770, Sprimont, 2003, p. 363, fig.1 and 2.
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Large convex oak panel carved in high relief depicting Elijah being fed by an angel (II. Kings, 19, 1-8). The prophet is sleeping in the desert, lying under a tree symbolizing a broom; on the right, an angel comes to bring him a cake cooked on the embers and a jug of water according to the legend. Flanders, workshop of Mathieu van Beveren (1630-1690), second half of the 17th century Height : 84 cm - Width : 49 cm - Depth : 11,5 cm (reinforcements, accident on one side) The fine features and the straight nose of the angel's face as well as his curly hair with the thick lock of hair above his forehead are similar to those of the angel supporting the pulpit of the church of Our Lady of Dendermonde, made in 1681 by Mathieu van Beveren. The treatment of the wings is quite comparable, with the same double row of rounded feathers at the top, falling on longer, tapered ones. This Flemish sculptor, who was born in Antwerp in 1630 and died in Brussels in 1690, also made the high altar in the church of Saint Nicholas in Ghent (1677-1678), the funerary monuments of Gaspard Boest in the church of Saint James in Antwerp (1665) and of Lamoral Claude-François, Count of Tour et Taxis in the church of Sablon in Brussels (1678). Book consulted: P. Philippot, L'architecture religieuse et la sculpture baroques dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux et la principauté de Liège 1600-1770, Sprimont, 2003, p. 363, fig.1 and 2.
