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2 unusual facts about The Allegory of Faith


The Allegory of Faith

Atlases depicted in this painting contain maps primarily of Vorarlberg and Tirol at the western end of Austria, so perhaps the painting was in that area, according to Wheelock.

By the early 19th century the painting apparently had found its way to Austria, where it was depicted in the background of Portrait of a Cartographer and His Wife by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller in 1824 (now in Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster).



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Jan Baptist Xavery

Stylistically, Xavery was influenced at the start of his career by Daniel Marot; later, his style became more elaborate, in works such as the Allegory of Faith of 1735-9, in the Grote Kerk of Haarlem.