Noah's Sacrifice, plate IX from The Creation and Early History of Man
Jan Wierix
1606
Medium
Pen and brown ink on parchment
Dimensions
9.4 × 12.3 cm (3 3/4 × 4 7/8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
127364
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
After surviving the Flood, Noah’s family gives thanks by sacrificing an animal. Antwerp-born Jan Wierix showed this ancient scene of thanksgiving from above, with an almost all-seeing view of the family, their sacrifice, God appearing in a cloud, and the vessel of their salvation (the ark) shown in the background at left. This subject is one of 20 in the series titled The Creation and Early History of Man. The delicacy of the line work and the drawing’s presentation on the durable material of ve...