Description
Kerstiaen de Keuninck, a Flemish painter working in Antwerp around 1600, specialised in landscapes lit by disaster: fires, storms, sacked cities. Here the disaster is the fall of Troy, on the night the Greeks came out of the horse. The city is a Flemish town of towers, bridges and canals, and every window of it is alight. In the foreground Aeneas carries his old father Anchises across the bridge with his son at his side, the one escape the night allowed, and the horse itself stands in the square behind them, its work done.
Paintings like this were made for collectors who wanted the whole story in one glance: the crime, the fire, the flight, and the strange beauty of a city burning at night. De Keuninck gives the sky more colour than most painters give a sunset. Our hand-painted reproduction is made in oil on canvas from the original, with the fire glazed in the reds and oranges the panel still holds.

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