01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Jacob de Backer's Allegory of Christian patience, with Footnotes #187

Jacob de Backer  (circa 1540/1545–1591/1600)

Detail; Allegory of Christian patience with Chronos releasing her from the shackles, c. 1590

Oil paint, oak panel

height: 107.5 cm (42.3 in); width: 75.5 cm (29.7 in)

National Museum in Warsaw

Jacob de Backer  (circa 1540/1545–1591/1600)

Allegory of Christian patience with Chronos releasing her from the shackles, c. 1590

Oil paint, oak panel

height: 107.5 cm (42.3 in); width: 75.5 cm (29.7 in)

National Museum in Warsaw

A Naked, young woman in a half-sitting position, leaning against a rock to which she is chained. Head and eyes raised to the heavens, in her left hand she is holding a crucifix. 

A putto with a laurel wreath in her left hand and a palm branch in her right hand flies over her head. At the woman's feet, on the left, a winged, bearded, heavily-muscled old man, seen down to his waist, removes the shackles from her feet. Next to the old man's right hand there is an ax and below it (cut with the edge of the painting - an hourglass. On the opposite side a white sheep.

Patientia, although it does not belong to the Christian canon of the seven main virtues, is inextricably linked with them, above all with the virtue of Hope. More on this painting

Jacob de Backer (c. 1555 – c. 1591) was a Flemish Mannerist painter and draughtsman active in Antwerp between about 1571 and 1585. Even though he died young at the age of 30, the artist was very prolific and an extensive body of work has been attributed to him. Art historians are not agreed on how many of these works are autograph or the product of a workshop. The works attributed to the artist or his workshop are executed in a late-Mannerist style clearly influenced by Italian models. More on Jacob de Backer

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