Spiritual orchard, ca. 1650, Geistliche Baum-Garten, Geestelycke Boom-Gaert, Le Jardin Spirituel (title on object), The spiritual orchard, ca. 1650. Allegory in which a woman (the soul), the bride of Christ, is guided by a angel is led through an enclosed garden divided into seven compartments corresponding to the Stations of Christ's Way of the Cross. In each part there is a Stations of the Cross and a flowerbed in which a corresponding type of flower has been planted. In the middle Christ on the cross. At the bottom cartouches with texts, in the caption 6 verses of 6 lines in German, Dutch

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