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Calvary
(c. 1610)
- Medium
- oil on copper
- Measurements
- 35.6 × 55.9 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in brown paint l.c.: J. BRVEGHEL.
- Accession Number
- 94-5
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1959
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- 17th Century & Flemish Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Jan Brueghel I, along with his friend Rubens, was one of the most important Flemish painters of the early seventeenth century. He distinguished himself from his famous father (Pieter ‘the elder’) and brother (Pieter ‘the younger’) with small-scale, densely populated landscapes with minutely rendered foliage, which were unprecedented in Flemish Baroque art. Many of these were painted on thin panels of smooth copper, a surface that enhanced the enamelled effect of oil colours and fine brushstrokes. Brueghel was one of the most talented painters ever to work on copper. His jewel-like paintings were so admired that he often repeated subjects to meet demand.
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures Landscapes Religion and Mythology
- Subjects (specific)
- Crucifixion of Christ (New Testament narrative) crucifixions deaths groups of people Jesus Christ (Christian character) mountains skeleton components (animal components)
