Showing posts with label Location: Austria. Show all posts
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29 September 2021

Jan Brueghel the elder. Visit to the Tenants (‘Besuch auf dem Pachthof’), ca. 1597 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).


Oil on copper: 27 x 36 cm. A copy by Jan Brueghel the elder of a now lost original by his father Pieter Bruegel. The Frits Lugt Collection in Paris still holds a grisaille drawing attributed to Pieter Bruegel, dated 1567 and titled 'Visit to the Tenant Farmer' (Fondation Custodia, Paris). In Antwerp lies another grisaille panel by Jan Brueghel the elder, titled 'Visit to the Peasants' (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp). Yet another oil on wood panel copy in The Holburne Museum/ UK by Pieter Brueghel the younger (son of Pieter Bruegel, and brother of Jan Brueghel the elder), dated ca. 1620 and titled ‘The Visit of the Godfather’. It was initially thought that the scene depicted a visit by a rich foster father to a newly born godchild, but it is now believed to represent a maternity visit by a landlord to his tenants.

Visit > Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
More > Jan Brueghel the elder at Wikipedia.

11 March 2021

Hugo van der Goes. Diptych with The Fall of Man (‘Diptychon mit Sündenfall’), ca. 1480 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).



Oil on oak: 33.8 x 22.9 cm(!). Complete diptych: 41 x 61.5 cm. In the end things didn’t work out for Van der Goes. He had a mental breakdown and declared himself to be damned.

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More > Hugo van der Goes at Wikipedia.

10 March 2021

Diego Velázquez. Infanta Margarita Teresa in a blue Dress (‘Infantin Margarita Teresa in blauem Kleid’), 1659 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).



Oil on canvas: 125.5 x 106 cm. Margaret Theresa of Spain, the blonde princess as depicted in ‘Las Meninas’ (1656). Given in marriage to emperor Leopold I (who was her maternal uncle and paternal cousin).

Visit > Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
More > Google Arts & Culture.
More > Diego Velázquez at Wikipedia.
More > Margarita Teresa at Wikipedia.

27 September 2020