Project Description

Huile sur toile

Dimensions : 30 cm x 40 cm

Signed lower right : Raphael Dekoker 1944

The Neerpedebeek at Pede Saint Anne Belgium

Raphael Dekoker

Located west of Brussels in the Pajottenland, the typical village of province of Flemish Brabant from Pede-Sainte-Anne, in Dutch Sint-Anna-Pede is a sector of Itterbeek, which is itself one of the villages of the municipality of Dilbeek. It owes its name to the Neerpedebeek, a tributary of the Senne, which crosses the village.

The little Sainte-Anne church in Pede-Sainte-Anne, which has already been mentioned in 1259, is famous around the world because it is found in the background of “the parable of the blind”, painted in 1568 by Pierre Breugel “the old one” and now on display at the Capodimonte Museum in Naples². She has undergone transformations since, but the whole remains faithful to the representation visible on the table. A copy executed by Pierre Breugel is in the Louvre Museum in Paris “the young”.

In 1770, on the map of Ferraris, the hamlet is under the name of Ste Anna Pede.

Another work by a Belgian painter is offered to you by the Gallery.