ABRAHAM VAN DIEPENBEECK

(Hertogenbosch 1596-1675 Antwerp) The Virgin as the Woman of the Apocalypse. Black and red chalk on cream laid paper mounted on laid paper, 1650. 423x350 mm; 16x13 inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower left recto. Ex-collection Holtkott, ink stamp verso (not in Lugt). The current work derives from Rubens' altarpiece at Freising Cathedral in southern Germany, a modello for which--dating from around 1623-24--is in the Getty Collection, Los Angeles (85.PB.146).