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Fantasy landscape with St Charles Borromeo
Ferguson, who was born in Holland but spent much of his life in France, specialised in painting sculpture and ruins. This elaborate fantasy is based on the French classicising landscape tradition, and includes the figure of St Charles Borromeo indicating an oversized antique sarcophagus which bears a relief of Christ’s nativity. It is clearly allegorical, but the exact meaning is obscure.
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/11H(CHARLES BORROMEO)
- http://iconclass.org/73B64
- http://iconclass.org/73B25
- http://iconclass.org/48C24
- http://iconclass.org/42E33
Type of item
- painting
- brush
- Brush
- Art of painting
Medium
- Private gift
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/11H(CHARLES BORROMEO)
- http://iconclass.org/73B64
- http://iconclass.org/73B25
- http://iconclass.org/48C24
- http://iconclass.org/42E33
Type of item
- painting
- brush
- Brush
- Art of painting
Medium
- Private gift
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.1700 - c.1720
Places
- France
- Frankrijk
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.253
- France
Provenance
- …; private collection Lyon, France, since the mid nineteenth century;{According to the catalogue for the anonymous sale, Paris (Sotheby's), 27 June 2002, no. 6.} anonymous sale, Paris (Sotheby's), 27 June 2002, no. 6, € 45,600, to the dealer Jack Kilgore, New York;{Copy RMA; note RMA.} from whom, $ 30,000, to a private collector, 2009;{Note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 2009 (inv. no. SK-C-1704); by whom donated to the museum, 2009
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.473454
- SK-A-5006
Extent
- height 130.5 cm
- width 195.5 cm
Format
- oil paint (paint)
- canvas
- Canvas
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:16:49.714Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:38:13.242Z