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This is a small-scale replica of the canvas on the same subject now in the Museo del Prado and was originally part of the altarpiece painted for the church of the Augustinian Colegio de Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación, commonly known as the Colegio de Do…

Paris Bordone moved to Venice with his family when still a child. He trained there in Titian’s workshop, which he left around 1518 to work independently. His oeuvre, which includes religious, mythological and allegorical works as well as portraits, has be…

This anonymous portrait was acquired in 1935. Since at least the late 18th century it had belonged to the monastery at Admont in Styria. The panel was loaned by the monastery to the Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz where it was on display between around 1850…

Like the previous pair, this still life is an early work by the artist, whose first known compositions fall within this genre. Relatively little is known regarding Chardin’s life prior to 1718, the date when he began his training with Pierre-Jacques Cazes…

The Swiss-born artist Angelica Kauffman trained with her father Joseph who specialised in mural decoration. A highly talented and precocious painter, her first independent works date from her teenage years. Kauffman lived and worked throughout her life in…

Jan van Scorel played an important role in Netherlandish art through his dissemination of Italian Renaissance ideas and models. Van Scorel combined his activities as a painter with ecclesiastic posts and with other interests that included engineering and …

In the 1650s Ruysdael produced a series of small-format, vertical, marine views in which he experimented with light and atmospheric effects on large areas of water and sky. Art historians have frequently noted the influence on these works of two other Dut…

Both panels were acquired for the Collection in 1929 from Lucerne Fine Art, Switzerland. One month later, Georg Gronau wrote a report in which he praised the quality and artistic merit of these works and the poetic landscapes in which the narratives are s…

Adriaen Thomasz. Key is first documented in Antwerp in 1568 where he is recorded in the painters’ guild. Little information survives prior to that date, although his early works, particularly his portraits, bear some resemblance to those of Willem Key. Ad…

Gabriel Mälesskircher may have trained in the Low Countries, from where he derived his technique and approach to representing reality. Mälesskircher has been identified as the young Master Gabriel recorded in Munch in 1455 where he was paid for some minia…

This panel of The Temptation of Saint Anthony has been in the Collection since 1928. The only previous known owner is Hans Wendland, in whose collection it was to be found in Basel in 1925, from where it entered the Dutch art market with Goudstikker, who …

This portrait paired with the Portrait of a Man entered the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection at different dates and from different sources. The female portrait entered the Collection 1928 and was included in the 1930 Munich exhibition. It was acquired from…

Lievens trained in his native city with Joris van Schooten and later in Amsterdam with Pieter Lastman. Between 1625 and 1631 he maintained close links with the young Rembrandt, possibly sharing a studio in Leiden where they worked together. As a result, t…

Joachim Patinir is considered to be the forerunner of landscape painting, a genre that began to evolve in the 16th century but which became fully independent in the following century. Little is known of his artistic training, and the first dated documenta…

De heilige familie bij avond. Interieur verlicht door kaarslicht met Maria en Anna bij de wieg waarin het Christuskind slaapt. Maria leest uit een boek, Anna houdt het wiegenkoord in de handen. Jozef zit links onder de trap. Op een tafel rechts staan een …

Landscape with dirt road, stone fence and trees

Mountain landscape with sea view

Horse with wings figure on yellow colored background

Seated semi-nude male figure

Seated semi-nude male figure

Seated semi-nude female figure

Head study on yellow background

Head study on green background

Head study