Noah's Ark

Jan Griffier I (1645? - 1718)

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

1710

Griffier may have sketched some of the featured animals in private menageries or aviaries, and macaws and monkeys were popular as pets at that time. The appearance and pose of other animals would have been borrowed from other paintings.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 149 x 149 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £25000 ( Total: £215,000)
• ArtFunded in: 1992
• Vendor: Lane Fine Art

Provenance

Perhaps commissioned by Sir John Trevelyan Bart (1670-1755) and thereafter always at the Great Hall at Nettlecombe Court, Somerset.

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