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Jan Muller after Hendrick Goltzius (1589)
The Separation of Light and Darkness
engraving; New Hollstein's second state of two
Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), obj. no. 53.601.338(7).
Jan Boeckhorst (Münster 1604 - 1668 Antwerp)
The First Day of Creation
oil on canvas
60 x 74,5 cm
ON LOAN TO THE DORDRECHTS MUSEUM FOR THE EXHIBITION "FROM DUSK TILL DAWN", 5 SEPTEMBER 2026 - 21 FEBRUARY 2027
Provenance
Baron Adriaan Willem de Heusch van Landwijk, Herk-de-Stad (Donk, Belgium), before 1774;
His sale, Brussels, 21 July 1778, lot no. unknown: “Sept tableaux representant les sept jours de la Creation du Monde, haut 2 pieds…”
Literature
F. X. De Burtin, Catalogue des tableaux vendus à Bruxelles depuis l’année 1773 jusqu’à 1803, Brussels, s.d., 155;
M. Galen, Johann Boeckhorst. Gemälde und Zeichnungen, Hamburg, 2012, 473, no.1.