Allegory of Africa (from a Series of "The Four Parts of the World")
Jan Boeckhorst (1604-1668)
Allegory of Africa (from a Series of "The Four Parts of the World")
Jan Boeckhorst (1604-1668)
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- Material/technique
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 134 × 116 cm
- Lender
- Hohenbuchau Collection, Dauerleihgabe an LIECHTENSTEIN. The Princely Collections, Vienna
- Currently exhibited
- Garden Palace, permanent presentation
- Artists/makers/authors
- Jan Boeckhorst
- Inventory number
- HB 94
- Provenance
- probably mentioned in the inventory of Jeremias Wildens (son of landscape painter Jan Wildens), Antwerp, 30. 12. 1653: "Vier schilderijen, wesende de Vier Deelen van de Werelt, geschildert door Joannes Binckhorst Minoris"; 19th century unknown collection, Denmark, as Jacques Jordaens (an old label in Danish on the stretcher with an attribution of the painting to Jordaens); acquired for the Hohenbuchau Collection in 2006 by Derek Johns, London; on permanent loan to LIECHTENSTEIN since 2008. The Princely Collections, Vienna
