Bidspirit auction | FLEMISH SCHOOL, 17th CENTURY Deucalion

FLEMISH SCHOOL, 17th CENTURY Deucalion and Pyrrha throw the stones from which a new human race is born Oil on canvas, cm. 71,5x109,5. Framed The subject is taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses (Book 1) and tells of how the two protagonists, husband and wife, being the only survivors of a flood that had swept away corrupt mankind, according to the goddess Themes repopulate the Earth throwing stones behind them.