SAFTLEVEN, Cornelis
(b. 1607, Gorinchem, d. 1681, Rotterdam)

The Temptation of St Anthony

1629
Oil on oak panel, 34 x 27 cm
Private collection

Saftleven painted several versions of this subject, the present picture being the earliest among them. The subject allowed him to indulge to the full his taste for painting the weird and unnatural creatures which populate his early pictures.