Holy Family at the Fire
around 1532/33 | Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen
Heavily cropped on both sides and only extant as a fragment, this night-time composition offers a varied depiction of the birth of Christ as an intimate family scene enrichened by genre scenes such as the angel warming the baby’s swaddling clothes, or the cat comfortably purring. The vividly heavy forms, in contrast, were inspired by Raphael and the Roman High Renaissance.
Heavily cropped on both sides and only extant as a fragment, this night-time composition offers a varied depiction of the birth of Christ as an intimate family scene enrichened by genre scenes such as the angel warming the baby’s swaddling clothes, or the cat comfortably purring. The vividly heavy forms, in contrast, were inspired by Raphael and the Roman High Renaissance.
Artist:
Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (um 1504 Beverwijk bei Haarlem - 1559 Brüssel) DNB
Time:
around 1532/33
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Netherlandish
Material/technology:
oak wood
Dimensions:
stark beschnitten: heavily cut: 66,5 x 50,5 cm
Framed: 86,5 cm x 70 cm x 6,5 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 3577
Provenance
1890 from Prague to Vienna