Ventes live - Lot 8
[Flemish school]
Virgin "Immaculate Conception".
17th c
Prix de marteau: €
1.100
€ 800 / 1.200
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Description du lot
Drawing, black chalk, pen and brown ink, 27 x 17 cm, laid paper with watermark (unidentified), signed (by a later collector?) on lower right margin "Ab. Diepenbeek" and n. 31 (sl. waterstain mainly along right margin and a smaller stain to left margin, old creases on lower half).
Mounted on paper support.
The Holy Virgin (dressed here as a nun surrounded by three winged putti with the Holy Spirit descending in a nimbus. The iconography refers to the Book of Genesis (3:15), where the trickery of the snake is undone through Virgin Mary and the birth of the Messiah.