Aeneas Rescuing Anchises from Burning Troy
Hendrick van Steenwijck the Younger (Flemish, c. 1580-1640)
c. 1610
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
Anchises, former lover of the goddess Aphrodite, is here shown as an old man asleep in bed. In the background at right, seemingly disconnected from the quiet bedchamber, his home city of Troy burns. In this rendition of the Classical story, Hendrick van Steenwijck drops the viewer into a moment of suspended action as Anchises’s demigod son, Trojan hero Aeneas, rushes in to save his father and carry him to safety. Throughout, Steenwijck emphasizes contrasts between father and son: age and youth, light and dark, peace and chaos. The crisp and detailed depiction of the room itself attests to Steenwijck’s expertise in painting architectural interiors, a specialty he shared with his artist wife, Susanna van Steenwijck.
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Original size
- 22.6 × 31.5 cm (8 7/8 × 12 3/8 in.)
Museum record · 2 owners · 1 exhibition
Provenance
- Walter John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 8th duke of Buccleuch, Boughton House, Kettering, Northamptonshire, from at least 1912 to 1946; sold Christie’s, London, 1 November 1946, lot 137, to Soukup for 30 guineas.
- Charlotte Frank, London, to 1962; sold by Charlotte Frank to the Art Institute of Chicago December 1962.
Exhibitions
- Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Leonaert Bramer (1596-1675), A Painter of the Night, December 3, 1992-February 28, 1993.
