Lot 16
Unknown author ANGEL WITH A KEY TO A BOTTOMLESS PIT

17th century
Oil on canvas
26 x 23,5 cm (h x w)

Starting price
26 000 CZK
   |   1 040 €
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The exceptionally impressive theme of an angel dragging a devil on a chain to a bottomless pit is a possible paraphrase of a graphic from 1511 by Albrecht Dürer. It is described in Revelation (20): "Then I saw an angel descending from heaven, having in his hand the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain."