Fire from a Set of Elements: C.341-1991

Titles

Fire from a Set of Elements

Maker(s)

Production: Unknown
Printmaker: Goltzius, Hendrik (After)

Entities

• Panel (stained glass)
• stained glass panel

Categories

• Stained glass
• Glass

Description

Muff glass decorated en grisaille with details etched with a needle. Fire is shown as a full length, long-haired classical figure. He wears a cuirass-like tunic with short sleeves, short breeches with the right leg rolled up, and a billowing voluminous cloak. In his raised left hand he holds a flame and in his right, a grenade, shown as a sphere with four flames issuing from it. On the ground on the left there is a salamander in a fire, and on the right further back, a small crowd of robed figures and one kneeling before an altar with a flaming sacrifice on it, creating a pall of smoke. In an oval lead with a suspension loop at the top.

Notes

History note: Purchased at Christie's, 25th July, 1924; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

16th Century, Late
17th Century, Early
Circa 1575 CE - 1630 CE

Note

The figure was derived from a print by Goltzius, see Illustrated Bartsch, Vol. 3, 1980, Le Feu from The Elements engraved by a student of Goltzius under his direction 'H. Goltzuis execudebat A.o 1586'.

School or Style

Flemish