Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
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Deluge
Purchased 1953
actions: postures and motions
adults
angel
Bible: Old Testament
contorted
diseases and conditions
drowned
evening
figure
flood
Flood
people
religion and belief
rocky
sea
seascapes and coasts
sunset
times of the day
universal religious imagery
weather
<p>This painting is a smaller version of the large-scale painting Danby exhibited in 1840. The subject is from the Old Testament book of Genesis. God sends a flood to punish mankind’s wickedness but allows Noah and his family to be saved. Noah’s ark is in the background, illuminated by a shaft of moonlight. A stormy sea rages round a rocky peak and massive tree branches, to which humans and animals are clinging desperately. A blood-red sun can be seen setting to the left. In the lower right hand corner, an angel weeps over the death of a child.</p><p><em>Gallery label, November 2016</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
10 October 2006 – 29 April 2007
2007-04-29
10 October 2006 – 10 January 2007
2007-01-10
2006-10-10
Musée Magnin (Dijon, France)
1 February 2007 – 29 April 2007
2007-04-29
2007-02-01
Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts (Lausanne, Switzerland)
2006-10-10
Déluge et catastrophes
Loan-out
20 November 2009 – 13 February 2010
2010-02-13
20 November 2009 – 13 February 2010
2010-02-13
2009-11-20
Crawford Art Gallery (Cork, Ireland)
http://www.synergy.ie
2009-11-20
Terror and the Sublime: Art in an Age of Anxiety
Loan-out
20 July 2013 – 31 January 2014
2014-01-31
20 July 2013 – 22 September 2013
2013-09-22
2013-07-20
Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham, UK)
http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/
2013-07-20
Aquatopia
Loan-out
20 July 2013 – 26 January 2014
2014-01-26
20 July 2013 – 22 September 2013
2013-09-22
2013-07-20
Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham, UK)
http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/
12 October 2013 – 26 January 2014
2014-01-26
2013-10-12
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/
2013-07-20
Aquatopia
Exhibition
7 August 2014 – 24 July 2022
2022-07-24
7 August 2014
2014-08-07
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-08-07
Gallery 9
Collection based display
29 October 2024 – 30 September 2025
2025-09-30
30 October 2024 – 2 February 2025
2025-02-02
2024-10-30
Reggia di Venaria Reale (Turin, Italy)
1 September 2025 – 31 January 2026
2026-01-31
2025-09-01
Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary)
1 March 2026 – 31 August 2026
2026-08-31
2026-03-01
External
2024-10-29
William Blake and the Age of Romantic Fantasy: British Art & Imagination
Loan-out
The Deluge
support: 707 × 1099 mm
frame: 845 × 1222 × 80 mm
Purchased 1953
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<p>This painting is a smaller version of the large-scale painting Danby exhibited in 1840. The subject is from the Old Testament book of Genesis. God sends a flood to punish mankind’s wickedness but allows Noah and his family to be saved. Noah’s ark is in the background, illuminated by a shaft of moonlight. A stormy sea rages round a rocky peak and massive tree branches, to which humans and animals are clinging desperately. A blood-red sun can be seen setting to the left. In the lower right hand corner, an angel weeps over the death of a child.</p>
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actions: postures and motions adults angel Bible: Old Testament contorted diseases and conditions drowned evening figure flood Flood people religion and belief rocky sea seascapes and coasts sunset times of the day universal religious imagery weather