The Saint Elizabeth’s Day Flood
Also titled De Sint-Elisabethsvloed
c. 1490 - c. 1495
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 127.5 cm x width 110.5 cm x height 126 cm x width 109 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
On the night of 19 November 1421 – the feast day of Saint Elizabeth – much of Holland was flooded. The Dordrecht region was badly hit: 23 villages were submerged and 2,000 people died. The survivors later had an altarpiece made. The outer panels depict the disaster, with the breach of the dike on the right and the undamaged town of Dordrecht on the left.
