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The Marriage at Cana
In this night scene – a novelty in painting at the time – Vermeyen succeeded in creating a dramatic effect. Candlelight plays over the faces and casts dark shadows. For the flames, Vermeyen used gold leaf. He was well ahead of his time: only around 1600 did the nocturn as a genre become more widely known through the Italian artist Caravaggio.
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/73C611
- http://iconclass.org/11H(JOHN)31
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/73C611
- http://iconclass.org/11H(JOHN)31
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- c.1530 - c.1532
Place-Time
- second quarter 16th century
Places
- Mechelen
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.4150
- Brussels
- Brussel
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.4622
Provenance
- …; ? inventory of paintings, Diego Duarte, Amsterdam, 12 July 1682 (‘Een groot stuck van de maeltijt van den vader des huysgesins uit het Evangelio van Joannue Magus, discipel van Raphel Urbin en schilder van Carolus V, fl. 200’;{Transcribed in Muller 1870, p. 398, no. 40} …; the dealer, Annesley Gore, London, on behalf of an English nobleman, 1914;{Note Friedländer on photo, RKD, no. 28155: ‘Gore 1914/Gehört engl. Aristokraten’. Steinbart 1931, pp. 104-05, relates that the painting was offered to the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin shortly before World War I.} ...; collection Mrs Hope-Webb (?-1952);{According to the catalogue for the sale, London (Sotheby’s), 9 December 1981} her nephew, Nigal Logan, Chipping Campden, Cotswolds, until 1969;{According to the catalogue for the sale, London (Sotheby’s), 9 December 1981} his sister, Lady St Vincent, Avranche Manor, Jersey;{Note RMA.} her sale, London (Sotheby’s), 9 December 1981, no. 103, £ 22,000, to the dealer Julius Weitzner Gallery, London;{Note RMA.} from whom, £ 25,000 (fl. 118,000) to the museum, 1982;{Provenance reconstructed in Horn 1989, I, p. 88, note 298.}
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.6422
- SK-A-4820
Extent
- height 66.5 cm
- width 85 cm
Format
- panel
- oil paint (paint)
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:17:06.783Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:38:10.451Z