The Ark (detail)
by TIELING, Lodewijk, Oil on canvas
The story of Noah and the Art is told in the Genesis. In the present painting, Noah appears in the left, with his wife behind him and a son and daughter-in-law to the right. Noah instructs two younger, well-dressed women, who carry earthenware vessels. In the lower part of the canvas, the painter depicted a great variety of domestic and wild animals. The sources of this representation are the Paradise pictures of Jan Brueghel the Elder and Roelant Savery.