Un paesaggio fluviale con il Battesimo dell'Eunuch Hendrick Hondius i Netherlandish ca. 1605–25 in questo grande disegno di Hendrick Hondius, un paesaggio fluviale ondulato, ricco di dettagli, serve da cornice per il battesimo dell'eunuco, un episodio relativo al libro del nuovo Testamento atti degli Apostoli (8:26-40). In questo passaggio biblico, l'apostolo Filippo, guidato da un angelo del Signore, incontra un eunuco dalla corte della regina Candace d'Etiopia nel bel mezzo della lettura del libro di Isaia. Filippo si unisce all'uomo nel suo carro e gli racconta del Vangelo di Cristo, ispirando l'eunuco

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• Dimensioni: 3479 x 2513 px | 29,5 x 21,3 cm | 11,6 x 8,4 inches | 300dpi
• Data acquisizione: 22 dicembre 2014

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A River Landscape with the Baptism of the Eunuch Hendrick Hondius I Netherlandish ca. 1605–25 In this large drawing by Hendrick Hondius, a sundrenched river landscape, rich with detail, serves as the setting for the baptism of the eunuch, an episode related in the New Testament book Acts of the Apostles (8:26-40). In this biblical passage, the apostle Philip, guided by an angel of the Lord, encounters a eunuch from the court of Queen Candace of Ethiopia in the midst of reading the book of Isaiah. Philip joins the man in his chariot and tells him about the gospel of Christ, inspiring the eunuch to ask to be baptized when they pass by water. The baptism of the eunuch was a relatively popular subject in the Northern Netherlands in the seventeenth century, particularly among landscape specialists. David Vinckboons, for example, produced at least two paintings in which the episode is embedded within a lush view of land and water. His 1605 version, sold in Cologne in 2017 (Lempertz, May 20, 2017, lot 1031), may have served as a point of departure for Hondius, who, in 1618, published a series of Seasons after Vinckboons and whose various other landscape prints bear a general resemblance to the painter’s work.[1] The Museum’s drawing shares a compositional structure (if largely in reverse) with Vinckboons’s 1605 canvas, featuring an extensive vista framed by a cluster of trees and dense foliage on one side of the image and by a single tree on the other side. The structure at the far right of the drawing is also similar in shape to the landmass in the left background of Vinckboon’s painting, and the narrative scene unfolding across the foreground features a similar cast of characters, if differently costumed. Unlike the Vinckboons and most other Dutch depictions of the scene, however, Hondius presents the eunuch not on dry land receiving a sprinkling of water on his head, but almost entirely immersed in the river. Similarly, Philip does not appear administering the