The Tower of Babel

Location

Country: France
City: Strasbourg
Place: UK Delegation to Council of Europe

Jan Christiaensz Micker was born and died in Amsterdam, but few details of his life are known. He is thought to have painted mostly landscapes and religious subjects. Among his known works are Old Testament scenes and landscapes of his native country. His painting of the ‘Martyrdom of St Laurence’ belongs to the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Other works by Micker can be found in various Dutch collections; the Amsterdam Historical Museum owns an innovative bird’s-eye view of the city, in which shadows are cast over the streets and canals by unseen clouds. His brother Barent Micker was also a painter.

Places

Subjects

statue (as Subject), landscape C17th, crowd, Old Testament, monument, archway, steps, tower

Materials & Techniques

panel, oil, oil painting

Artist

Jan Christiaensz Micker (c.1598 - 1664)

Title

The Tower of Babel

Date

Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

height: 83.00 cm, width: 128.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Sir Bruce Ingram, 1963

Provenance

Collection of journalist and newspaper editor Sir Bruce Stirling Ingram (1877-1963) and on loan to the Ministry of Works from 1952; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in 1963

GAC number

1475