Cornelis van Haarlem
Two Followers of Cadmus devoured by a Dragon
1588148.5 x 195.5 cm
Oil on canvas stuck on oak
Signed, on the stone in the bottom right-hand corner: Cor Corneli.... fecit 1588
The National Gallery, London
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Engraving by Goltzius:
Hendrick Goltzius
Two Followers of Cadmus devoured by a Dragon
1588
Two Followers of Cadmus devoured by a Dragon
1588
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Pieter J.J. van Thiel, Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, 1562 - 1638, Doornspijk, 1999, nr. 120
Collection catalogues
Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, pp. 83-85
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 137
Literature
Jill Dunkerton, Susan Foister, and Nicholas Penny, Dürer to Veronese, New Haven, Conn.; London, 1999, fig. 4
Anna Tummers, The eye of the connoisseur, Amsterdam, 2011, fig. 65
Provenance
Perhaps in the collection of Jacob Rauwart, Amsterdam, 1588 and sold from the estate of Claes Rauwart, Amsterdam, 1612
collection of the Earl of Northumberland at Syon House by 1671
National Gallery, London, presented by the Duke of Northumberland, 1838
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Other works by Cornelis van Haarlem
The Fall of Man
1592
1592
Feast of a Civic Guard
1583
1583
The Massacre of the Innocents
1591
1591
The Marriage of Peleus and Thetis
c. 1592/93
c. 1592/93
Titanomachia
ca. 1588
ca. 1588