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The Adoration of the Kings

The infant Christ sits on the lap of his mother, the Virgin Mary, while the three kings present him with gifts. It is striking that the figures are shown crowded together and in fairly stiff, static poses. Ter Brugghen’s style was old-fashioned by the standards of his time:
the bright palette recalls Mannerism. The realism, especially in the Child’s face, brings to mind the work of the Italian pai…

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Publisher

  • Rijksmuseum

Subject

  • http://iconclass.org/73B57

Type of item

  • painting
  • Art of painting

Medium

  • Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Prins Bernhard Fonds and the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum

Publisher

  • Rijksmuseum

Subject

  • http://iconclass.org/73B57

Type of item

  • painting
  • Art of painting

Medium

  • Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Prins Bernhard Fonds and the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum

Providing institution

  • Rijksmuseum

Aggregator

  • Rijksmuseum

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

  • 1619
  • 1619

Place-Time

  • first quarter 17th century

Places

  • Utrecht
  • Utrecht
  • urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.23

Provenance

  • ...; private collection, Yorkshire;{Note RMA.} ...; the dealer, B. Cohen, London;{Note RMA.}...; sale, H.H. the Prince de Ligne et al., London (Sotheby’s), 10 July 1968, no. 38, as unknown artist, bought in;...; from the dealer B. Cohen, London, fl. 318,000, to the museum, with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and the Fotocommissie, 1970

Identifier

  • http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.8090
  • SK-A-4188

Extent

  • height 132.5 cm
  • width 160.5 cm

Format

  • canvas
  • oil paint (paint)
  • Canvas

Language

  • nl

Is part of

  • collection: paintings
  • collectie: schilderijen

Year

  • 1619

Providing country

  • Netherlands

Collection name

  • 90402_M_NL_Rijksmuseum

First time published on Europeana

  • 2014-05-27T20:16:18.811Z

Last time updated from providing institution

  • 2018-03-17T14:38:01.814Z
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