Die Allegorie "Kuss von Gerechtigkeit und Frieden"

The Kiss of Peace and Justice - Allegory, ca. 1580

ArtistWerkstatt von Jacob de Backer, Antwerpen 1530–1600 Antwerpen

Oil on oak

Dimensions without frame95,3 × 124,7 cm

Dimensions with frame113,6 × 144 cm

Status

not on display

About the workIn this motif, the painter or painters have taken up a passage from the Bible that states “justice and peace shall kiss”. The picture was completed during the Eighty Years’ War, which also ravaged Antwerp, its presumed place of origin. The work alludes to the hope that the war will end. Allegories – representations of abstract ideas in human form – were popular with wealthy, often aristocratic buyers from the sixteenth century onwards. There are 14 roughly contemporaneous versions of this theme from various Antwerp workshops that are known to exist today.

AccessionAcquisition 1953

Provenanceo.D. Sammlung der Prinzessin beider Sizilien als "Frans Floris"; o.D. Auktion in Dresden (?); o.D. Sammlung des Rittergutsbesitzers Baumgärtner, Frankfurt a.M.; 11.4.1953 erworben vom Rheinischen Kunstsalon Köln - Aenne Abels

Inventory numberM 209

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

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