[Antique print, engraving and etching] David and Goliath, Ceiling Paintings from the Jesuits' Church in Antwerp [13], published 1751, 1 p.

Jan Punt (1711-1779), after Jacob de Wit (1695-1754), after Pieter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)

[Antique print, engraving and etching] David and Goliath, Ceiling Paintings from the Jesuits’ Church in Antwerp [13] (David onthoofdt Goliat), published 1751, 1 p.

Name: [Antique print, engraving and etching] David and Goliath, Ceiling Paintings from the Jesuits' Church in Antwerp [13] (David onthoofdt Goliat), published 1751, 1 p.
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Representation of one of the ceiling Paintings from the Jesuits’ Church in Antwerp designed by Pieter Paul Rubens and destroyed in a fire in 1718. The iconographies were documented among others by Jacob de Wit, then turned into print by Jan Punt around the 1750s. The paintings depict scenes from the Old and the New Testaments. The style adopted by Rubens is reminiscent of the Venetian tradition of the Seicento, where the scenes are seen from below. Also, rather than painting directly on the surface of the ceiling (fresco or other), the artist realized the paintings on canvas, as his lagoon predecessors did with the ‘teleri’.

The present impression is nr. 13 (the present plate is not numbered, possibly a first state) from the set, showing David and Goliath; the battle scene with the giant lying sprawled on the ground in the left foreground, David placing his foot on Goliath’s left shoulder and about to behead him, David’s discarded sling in the lower right, the giant’s helmet in foreground. Within a rectangular frame.

Titled below: ‘David proecidit caput Goliad gladio ejus. L.1 Sam: qui et 1 Regum 17. v.51.’

Signed and dated at bottom: P.P. Rubens pinxit in Templo Societ. Jezu Antwerpiae / J de Wit delineavit J. Pun sculpsit 1751.

Antwerp – Rubens – Jesuit Church – Jesuit Order – Old Testament

[NL] Goliat ligt op de grond en David staat op het punt zijn hoofd af te houwen. Onder de rechthoekige voorstelling een vers in het Latijn uit 1 Sam. 17:51. Jan Punt was een Amsterdams toneelspeler, voordrachtskunstenaar, schilder, tekenaar en graveur. Hij is bekend door de gravures van de tekeningen die Jacob de Wit (zijn leermeester) gemaakt had van de – bij een brand in 1715 verloren gegane – plafondschilderingen van Rubens in de Sint-Carolus Borromeuskerk. Reinier Vinkeles was leerling van hem.

SKU: PR121067

Etching and engraving on paper, with some margins; total: 373 x 442 mm; state I(?)/2; traces of a central fold, some rubbing and light staining on the right margin; overall in good condition. Corpus Rubenianum / The ceiling paintings for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp, nr. 5.

€ 145,20 (€ 120,00 ex. btw)

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