Search Request | Object report
Four elements
Lost Art-ID
7477
Artist / Creator
Balen, Hendrick van (der Ältere)
Birth
1575, Antwerpen
Death
1632.07.17, Antwerpen
Title
Four elements
Dating
1585/1632
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil ; Metal (Copper) / painted
Height
21.50 cm
Width
17.00 cm
Inventory number
Gal.-Nr. 924
Description
Group of four children. Front Left, with a fish in its hand, sitting "the water", behind it "the air" with a parrot on its right hand. Front Right warms "the fire" its hands at a brazier, behind him, "the earth" with an apple in its left hand.
Literature: Marx, Harald (Hrsg.). Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden. Illustriertes Gesamtverzeichnis Bd. II, Köln 2005, S. 684.
Provenance
1741 from the Wallenstein Collection in Dux
Inv. "before 1741" (supplement).
Literature / Source
Marx, Harald (Hrsg.). Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden. Illustriertes Gesamtverzeichnis Bd. II, Köln 2005, S. 684.
Published since
Contact
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
Zwinger
Theaterplatz 1
01067 Dresden
Germany
Phone
+49 (0)351 4914 6679
E-Mail
Homepage
Contact
Direktion
Phone
+49 (0)351 4914 6679
Permalink to this page